...leading better patient outcomes. Some investing as much as 25% of their budgets to become digital.

"There is some form of technology in virtually every hospital in the country," says John Vitalis, a senior principal for the Noblis Center for Health Innovation, a Falls Church, Va.-based nonprofit technology organization. "It touches every department, both clinical and non-clinical."

A digital hospital transformation often includes making patient data immediately accessible to any pertinent clinician within the facility or in a remote location. Many new hospitals are building in all-digital platforms, and older hospitals are increasingly switching over. HHS estimates that health IT could save as much as $140 billion a year by 2014.

"With an electronic chart, you can have things going on concurrently and simultaneously,"...

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