Survey Results Indicate EHRs Not Providing Quality Healthcare Analytics
CIC Advisory, a clinician-led healthcare informatics consulting firm, has released its latest report on the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare organizations. In The State of Healthcare Analytics: Fifty Top Leaders Offer Their Perspective, CIC Advisory offers a look at current conditions across the industry and provides insights into things to come.
Surveying 50 CIOs and healthcare executives from non-profit and for-profit hospitals, multi-hospital systems, and academic medical centers across the U.S, respondents were asked about the tools provided by vendors and satisfaction levels with these reporting tools. While the respondents represented a variety of organizations, there was agreement on many issues including most reporting the use of multiple tools to help achieve their healthcare analytics and health IT objectives. However, half of the respondents commented that the standard reports generated from EHR systems are not providing quality healthcare analytics or trending value.
Key findings from the survey include:
50% of the respondents commented that the standard reports generated from EHR systems are not providing quality healthcare analytics. From the report: While half of respondents reported being satisfied with the tools they use to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of patient care, this still means that nearly 50% of respondents are lukewarm or disappointed with the tools at their disposal. Respondents commented that the standard reports coming out of the major EHR systems are not providing good analytical or trending value, thus requiring both purchase and support of a hodgepodge of systems lacking enterprise focus.
Healthcare analytics is often a secondary or add-on responsibility.
Many organizations rely on external resources including consultants and GPO affiliations to provide analytic support.
In a press release issued on the report Marcy Stoots, MS, RN-BC, co-founder and principal of CIC Advisory said, “As healthcare organizations are being asked to cooperate with each other on many levels, including sharing electronic health records (EHR) through health information exchanges (HIEs), it makes sense that sharing knowledge about the state of the industry can similarly help every organization become more effective.”The full survey report is available here.