Table 3.

Percent of Functional IT Sophistication by Health Care Domain

Resident Care		Clinical Support		Administrative Processes
Resident Management Processes	(%)	Laboratory	(%)	IT Systems Monitoring	(%)
Admissions	74	None	53	IT Help Desk Issues	26
Discharges	63	Recurring Tests Management	26	Tracking IT Systems Issues	15
Transfers	51	Results Validation	25	IT Complaints/Requests	15
Bed Availability Estimate	31	Resident Registration/Admission	21	Backup Power Source
Wait List Management	19	Specimen Pick-up	15	Yes	60
None	21	Results Capturing	15	No	40
Documents		Specimen Archiving	14	Current IT System Re-engineered
Face Sheet	82	Label Generation	9	Resident Care Processes	13
Results Reporting	51	Radiology		Physician Order Entry	5
Physician Order Sheet	50	Results Capturing	9	Registration/Scheduling	5
Order Entry	22	Resident Registration	5	HIPPA	4
Discharge Summary	21	Label Generation	2	Revenue Cycle	4
Progress Notes	10	None	82	None	48
None	13	Pharmacy		Outsourced Activities
Nursing Processes or Documents		Pharmacy Consulting Services	20	Network Administration	35
Care Planning/RAPS	86	Medication Administration	15	Hardware Management	33
Real Time Continuous MDS/RAI	62	Allergy Alerts	15	Software Development	32
Quality Assurance	34	Resident Drug Profile Look-up	14	Software Installation	30
Staff Scheduling	30	Drug Interaction Checking	14	Hardware Purchasing	27
Incident Reporting	27	Duplication Orders Checking	13	Helpdesk	21
Resident Acuity/Condition	21	Do Not Crush Alerts	13	Training	21
Physician Orders Transcription	19	Historical Information Storing	13	IT Strategic Planning	15
Medication Administration	15	Medication Purchasing	12	Change Management	9
Historical Record Keeping	14	Making Out Refill Reports	7	None	29
Clinical Reporting (e.g Treatment)	14	Crossmatch with Beer’s Criteria	6
Nursing Flowsheet	13	Wards Stock Management	5
Vital Signs Recording	7	IV Admixtures Management	4
Staff Workload Management	5	None	54
None	6
Physical/Occupational Therapy
Progress Notes	42
Care Planning	32
Registrations/Admissions	23
Resident data collection	20
Physicians’ Order Transcription	12
Order Entry	12
Staff Scheduling	11
Results reception/reporting	10
Notes	4