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New - 2009 HIMSS Analytics Report: Evaluating HITECH’s Impact on Healthcare Privacy and Security, Commissioned by ID Experts
The broad objective of this research was to gain an understanding of the status of patient data privacy and security, and the related potential for data breaches at hospitals and their business associates across the United States. We looked at this particularly in the context of the recently enacted HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act.

New - The State of US Hospitals Relative to Achieving Meaningful Use Measurement
An overview of market gaps that must be addressed in order to achieve ARRA compliance.

Intelligent Medical Devices in Hospitals - An Overview
An analysis of intelligent medical devices and their status in the electronic medical record environment.

Top Five Challenges for Wireless Healthcare Deployments
This research examines five challenges that hospitals face in their wireless environment.

2008 HIMSS/HIMSS Analytics Ambulatory Healthcare IT Survey
Designed to collect information about the utilization of key technologies in the ambulatory market, such as electronic medical records (EMRs) and e-prescribing.

Hospital IT Expenses and Budgets Related to Clinical Sophistication
What are the IT operating and capital expenses associated with more advanced EMR capabilities? The latest white paper from HIMSS Analytics presents an analysis of different scenarios based on hospital data reported in their database.

CIO Leadership Profiles: Implications of Matching CIO Authority and Leadership Capability on IT Impact
Does your organization understand the business value of their IT investments? A recent study, published in MIS Quarterly Executive, argues that the impact of IT within an organization depends on the fit between the CIO and the strategic context of the organization.

Characterizing the Health Information Technology Workforce: Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database - Executive Summary
The goal of this study was to use a comprehensive HIT database to attempt to characterize this workforce and identify areas where future research and policy is needed.
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2008 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data, commissioned by Kroll Fraud Solutions
This research identifies how senior IT Executives and Chief Security Officers view the status of the security of patient information at their hospitals.

Digitization Scope and Experience: The Impacts of it on Performance in Healthcare Organization
This research points to how constructs related to the use of IT can explain distinct pathways in the impacts of IT on firm performance, particularly in the healthcare sector.

A Status Report on Hospitals? Enterprise IT Capabilities
This report suggests that appropriate leveraging of IT resources can provide hospitals with competencies that are congruent with their competitive needs rather than existing patterns of usage within the organization.

Stage 6 Hospitals: The Journey and the Accomplishments
This white paper evaluates hospitals that have achieved an Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Score of stage 6 or higher.

EMR Sophistication Correlates to Hospital Quality Data
This study of UHC hospitals demonstrates a correlation between quality of care and a hospital’s EMR adoption progress.

Care Based Revenue Cycle Management:
This report explores how Care Delivery Organizations are responding to the need to integrate quality and performance indicators into their Revenue Cycle Management process.

Exploration and Exploitation of Health IT systems: Impact on Financial Performance of Hospitals
The increasing returns to simultaneous exploration and exploitation are proposed using the Milgrom and Roberts (1990, 1995) complementarities framework.

Electronic Medical Records vs. Electronic Health Records
This paper outlines the difference between the electronic medical record and electronic health record. 

Reactive to Adaptive: Transforming Hospitals with Digital Technology
How healthcare organizations can proactively use technology to benefit their hospitals. 

US Hospital Clinical System Environment - Market Dynamics Drive Adoption Models
How market dynamics drive what technology is adopted when.

Definitions of Database Terms

Single Sign-On Reference Guide (June 2006)

2005 Scottsdale Institute-HIMSS Analytics Healthcare Leaders Report
The Changing Landscape of Healthcare IT Management and Governance.