Hospitals have been spending and scrambling to meet meaningful-use criteria for increased Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. However, those participating in Hospitals & Health Networks’ Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study on IT use are spending more strategically. These tech-savvy organizations (below) invest nearly 8 percent more of their capital budgets on IT than the general population of U.S. community hospitals surveyed by AHA (at right), yet they are spending less to operate it. In fact, community hospitals’ capital investment has dropped in the last four years. Their growing spending on in-house IT staff, however, suggests they are bringing in additional expertise.
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Average IT Operating Expenses as a Percentage of Operating Expense
Source: Hospitals & Health Networks’ Most Wired Survey 2007-2010
Average IT Capital Expenditures as a Percentage of Capital Expense
Source: Hospitals & Health Networks’ Most Wired Survey, 2007-2010
IT Operating Expenses % of total operating expenses at community hospitals
Source: AHA Annual Survey, 2009
IT Capital Expenses % of total capital expenses at community hospitals
Source: AHA Annual Survey, 2009
IT Staff % of total staff at community hospitals
Source: AHA Annual Survey, 2009
