IDC Health Insights Top 10 Health IT Predictions For 2012
Submitted By Anonymous, Created 01/12/2012 - 13:14
- The majority of U.S. providers will use EHRs by the end of 2012. This will advance health information exchange functionality.
- Providers will establish successful ACOs, which will emerge from private or public-private initiatives.
- Health plans will rebrand in 2012 as the focus turns to consumers.
- There will be greater integration of payment systems with clinical performance and outcomes.
- Pharmaceutical companies will add software that provides real-time alerts, data integration, and analytics to create actionable information that will drive operational efficiencies.
- ACOs will need to develop an enterprise analytic framework that includes clinical analytics.
- The relationships between pharmaceutical companies and outsourcing firms will shift to broader and deeper partnering relationships across entire functional areas.
- As physicians, nurses, and mid-level practitioners increasingly use their personal mobile devices to conduct work-related tasks, hospital CIOs will have to deal with increased security risks.
- Health plans will deploy second-generation communication strategies, developed with the aid of analytics software, to support consumer communications throughout 2012.
- The second generation of consumer communications will leverage consumers' social networks, including family, friends, and co-workers, to encourage healthy habits.
Source: InformationWeek
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