Lack of staffing resources was cited as the most significant barrier to implementing IT, according to the 2012 HIMSS Leadership Survey, which was released Tuesday morning at HIMSS12.So. IT people are apparently too hard to find at the moment. Nurses—also a shortage, apparently. We’ve been over primary care doctors and their deficit.
Nearly two-thirds of the 302 IT executive level respondents expect to add staff in the next year to successfully implement their IT initiatives.
It would seem that several portions of the health care labor force are understaffed, and yet health care employment has been the strongest employment sector in the post-recession doldrums we may only just be sailing through. The secret, of course, is probably in specialists and administrative staff, but it gives you a hint as to how the health care sector is misaligned—too much paper work and too little basic doctoring.
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