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IT Staffing Models from HIMSS Analytics April 2008 Data

For those of us feeling the impact of tightening current year budgets, this morning doing some research I came across two resources which highlight the HIMSS Analytics data set.

• Characterizing the Health Information Technology Workforce: Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics Database, April 2008
• What workforce is needed to implement the Health Information Technology Agenda? Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics Database

In order to model off of this information a couple of assumptions need to be made, in my opinion. The assumptions I utilize are as follows:

• The institution active bed count is accurate.
• In order to be rated at a stage, all components are in productive use from that stage previous stages.
• Assumes there is no outsourcing of IT resources.
• Assumes centralized IT workforce including LIS, Pharmacy IS, and informatics are in the available staffing members count.
• Assumes in-flight strategic and capital projects have resources within their funding and are not a part of this calculation
• Assumes mainly an acute care business model, without the ambulatory care centers or physician practice organizations.

Here are the thoughts for the calculation; first I evaluated our current state on the EMR Adoption Model.

This will provision a good idea of the workforce needed to support the healthcare operations. Futhermore moving the model to a granular level the distribution of IT shop efforts from HIMSS Analytics is as follows