Disruption in Community HIS Purchases:
It’s All About Physician Adoption
“Unlike past purchase decisions where cost and resource requirements dominated, community hospital (fewer than 200 beds) executives now consider physician adoption the number-one criterion when purchasing a hospital information system (HIS) solution, according to a report from KLAS” titled “Disruption in Community HIS Purchases: It’s All About Physician Adoption.” From August 25, 2009 Press Release from KLAS, the Utah-based  research firm which follows healthcare vendors.

iHealthBeat did a roundup on August 25, 2009 stories “Report: Small Hospitals Value Clinician Adoption of IT Systems” on latest KLAS Research.
Bernie Monegain of HealthcareIT News on August 25, 2009, wrote “Small hospitals shop for big hospital IT.”
In article,“Federal funding key to HIT acceleration: report,” Joseph Conn, HITS Staff Writer, wrote on August 25, 2009,“Purchase decisions are being made right now,” reads a subhead of the KLAS report, which followed up saying, “Half of those interviewed plan to make an HIS selection in the next 12 months.”