SPOTLIGHT: Hospital IT adoption slower than expected

Hospitals have ambitious plans for health IT adoption, of that there's no doubt. The thing is, they're doing it at a slower pace than executives had predicted, according to a new study by HIMSS. The study of 5,084 hospitals found that they spent 7 percent less on healthcare IT than they'd allotted at 2007--and that much of what they spent went toward claims and billing processing. For 2008, HIMSS Analytics predicts that hospitals will spend 3 percent of their total budgets. Article