January 10, 2009

The Economy's Impact on Healthcare IT Spending: Hospital Leaders Retrench for a Continuing Recession

This report contains a Healthcare Informatics Research Study titled The Economy's Impact on Healthcare IT Spending: Hospital Leaders Retrench for a Continuing Recession. This report provides evidence that spending slowdowns, pauses and freeze have already been imposed in half of the U.S.-based hospitals. These new budget-stretching strategies already in practice point to impending shortfall and increased caution on IT spending. In this report, the reader will find information on this cautionary IT spending in healthcare from the aspects of staff, and demographics. Also found in this report is a section on survey methodology.