“The Healthcare industry IT spend has been historically low, but recent high profile security breaches, concerns over regulatory compliance, increasing complexity of HIT systems and the deployment of digital and mobile health services to improve patient access, satisfaction and brand loyalty have elevated the priority and spend in the board room for near and longer term investments,” concludes a report on the survey’s findings.

Healthcare organizations have significant operational cost pressures now more than ever, and there is an opportunity to close that gap quickly with disruptive technologies and analytic tools that open the door to the notion of the ‘creative CIO”.

However, the survey reveals that healthcare lags other industries in key technology skills. When asked in what areas their organizations are suffering from skills shortages, 45 percent of healthcare CIOs said big data/analytics, 36 percent responded project management, 30 percent indicated change management, and 29 percent cited security/resilience. – Vince Vickers, an advisory principal for healthcare and life sciences at KPMG, excerpted from his article, “CIOs expect healthcare IT spending to grow in 2017“, click here to read the article in its entirety.

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