CHICAGO -- As the ongoing quest continues for credible and current data on health information technology and management systems, The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information Technology Research and Education, managed by the HIMSS Foundation, has released updated information that includes: 1) Updated 2005 data from HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ DatabaseTM). 2) The 2006 Annual Report of the U.S. Hospital IT Market.

The Dorenfest Institute provides at no charge a variety of detailed historical data, reports, and white papers about information technology use in hospitals and integrated healthcare delivery networks to universities, students under university license, U.S. governments (local, state and federal), and governments of other countries that will be using the data for research purposes.

From July 1, 2006 - July 30, 2007 (HIMSS fiscal year 2007), the Dorenfest Institute received 248 total requests for information database access, an increase of 190 percent from the previous fiscal year. Almost half, or 47 percent, of the approved applicants were associated with a university. All requests were reviewed; they were accepted, if they fell into one of the four categories (listed above). Of the university approved requests, 38 percent were university students; university faculty and university other were each 6 percent. Government totaled 3 percent of the total accepted requests. Of all requests, 85 percent were from the United States; 15 percent from outside the U.S.

Of the accepted applicants, the majority, 72 percent, were academic related. As noted on the application form, the accepted applicants also accessed the database for the following reasons: academic research paper - 46 percent; doctoral thesis - 13 percent; masters' thesis - 12 percent; other - 12 percent; white paper - 8 percent; grant research - 6 percent; and article - 3 percent.

Information newly released and now available through the Institute includes:

The 2006 Annual Report of the U.S. Hospital IT Market, available in PDF format on The Dorenfest Institute Web site, presents the state of the U.S. hospital IT market. The report examines hospital budgets as well as financial, technology, and department environments and presents key finding on IT investment and enterprise resource planning. The data is from the HIMSS Analytics Database (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ DatabaseTM).

The newly released 2005 data from the HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ Database™) covers IT use in hospitals and integrated healthcare delivery networks. The release of the 2005 data expands the current library of the Dorenfest 3000+ Databases™ and Dorenfest Integrated Healthcare Delivery System Databases™ for the period 1986 through 2003, plus the 2004 data from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ Database™), as well as many publications on IT use in the healthcare industry during that same time period.

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