The vast majority (97 percent) of senior IT executives are responsible for at least one area outside of the IT department, according to the 2014 HIMSS Leadership Survey.
The most commonly reported areas of additional responsibilities include:
- Telecommunications: 67 percent
- Medical/clinical informatics: 57 percent
- Health information management: 22 percent
- Biomedical/clinical engineering: 16 percent
- Other: 18 percent
Survey results are based on responses from 298 senior-level IT executives from hospitals and health systems.
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