Results of the Gartner-AMDIS Survey of Chief Medical Informatics Officers

ID Number: G00168874

10 August 2009

Vi Shaffer John-David Lovelock

The chief medical informatics officer role has proven pivotal to the successful implementation of physician-directed IT applications. Gartner's survey provides useful guidance to healthcare organizations around the world in defining this role.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Survey Background

1.1		The Type and Size of Represented CDOs
1.2		Current Level of Clinical Automation

2.0

Survey Results

2.1

Common CMIO Titles

2.2

CMIO Backgrounds

2.2.1		Education and Experience
2.2.2		Prior Administrative Experience
2.2.3		Tenure in the CMIO Role and With the Current Organization

2.3

Reporting Structure

2.3.1

Gartner Evaluation

2.3.2

Selected CMIO Comments on Reporting Structure:

2.3.2.1		Comments From CMIOs Recommending the Position Reports to the CEO/COO
2.3.2.2		Comments From CMIOs Recommending Report to the CMO:
2.3.2.3		Comments From CMIOs Recommending Position Report to the CIO

2.4

Compensation

2.4.1

Direct Cost of a CMIO to the Care Delivery Organization

2.5

What CMIOs Do

2.5.1

CMIOs Continue to Practice Medicine

2.6

Current and Future Priorities of the CMIO

2.6.1

Expected Future Changes in CMIO Priorities

2.7

The CMIO as Manager

2.8

CMIO Views of the Job: Satisfaction, Success and Critical Factors

2.8.1		A Current View of CMIOs' Satisfaction and Success
2.8.2		Organizational Factors Contributing to CMIO Success
2.8.3		Organizational Factors Inhibiting CMIO Success
2.8.4		Personal Traits, Skills or Experiences Contributing to CMIO Success
2.8.5		Personal Traits, Skills or Experiences Inhibiting CMIO Success

2.9

CMIO Aspirations for Next Job

3.0

Recommendations

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Percentage of CMIOs That Rated Priorities With Highest CMIO Ratings

	Table 2.	Most Frequently Named Changes in Priorities

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Breakout of Survey Respondents by CDO Type

	Figure 2.	Breakout of Respondents by Organization Size (Based on Number of Acute Care Beds)

	Figure 3.	Percentage of Surveyed Organizations in Which Nurses Perform CPR Documentation (by Usage/Penetration Level)

	Figure 4.	Percentage of Surveyed Organizations in Which Physicians Place Inpatient Orders Through CPR Systems (by Usage/Penetration Level)

	Figure 5.	Percentage of Surveyed Organizations in Which Physicians Perform Inpatient Documentation in a CPR System (by Usage/Penetration Level)

	Figure 6.	Percentage of Surveyed Organizations in Which Physicians Perform Ambulatory Documentation Using an EMR (by Usage/Penetration Level)

	Figure 7.	Survey Respondent Job Titles

	Figure 8.	Medical Specialties of Survey Respondents

	Figure 9.	Masters Degrees Held by Survey Respondents

	Figure 10.	Did the Survey Respondent Have Previous Administrative Responsibilities?

	Figure 11.	Is This the Survey Respondents' First CMIO Position?

	Figure 12.	CMIO's Total Tenure as a CMIO Across all CDOs

	Figure 13.	Survey Respondents' Tenure in This CMIO Position

	Figure 14.	Survey Respondent CMIOs' Total Tenure With Current CDO

	Figure 15.	CMIO Reporting Relationship

	Figure 16.	To Whom Would Respondent CMIOs Recommend a CMIO Report?

	Figure 17.	Recommended CMIO Reporting Relationship, by Total Tenure of Respondents in CMIO Positions

	Figure 18.	Compensation Model for CMIOs Responding to Our Survey

	Figure 19.	Total Annual Compensation (Salary and Any Bonus), All Roles

	Figure 20.	Total Annual Compensation for CMIO Role Only

	Figure 21.	CMIO Role Compensation of Full-time CMIOs

	Figure 22.	Percentage of Time Spent in the CMIO Role

	Figure 23.	Does the Survey Respondent Continue to Practice Medicine?

	Figure 24.	Should CMIOs Continue to Practice Medicine?

	Figure 25.	Percentage of Time CMIOs Recommend Should Be Devoted to Medical Practice to Retain Competency and Medical Credibility

	Figure 26.	Priorities of CMIO Respondents

	Figure 27.	Does the CMIO Have Management Responsibilities?

	Figure 28.	How Satisfied Do CMIOs Feel?

	Figure 29.	How Successful Do CMIOs Feel?

	Figure 30.	What Would CMIOs Like Their Next Job to Be?

CIO and IT Leadership
Healthcare Systems
Computer-Based Patient Records

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