Hospital Execs Fail To Measure Return On IT Investments

Hospitals do not adequately consider return on investment when measuring the success of electronic medical record systems, hospital executives said in a recent survey.

Executives surveyed by Beacon Partners, a health-care management consulting firm based in Weymouth, Mass., expressed dissatisfaction with hospitals’ efforts to measure the return on investment of IT clinical systems, according to a summary of the survey's results. More than 300 health-care executives responded to the survey.