What is the SI Health IT Benchmarking Program?
SI’s Health IT Benchmarking program enables organizations to compare IT costs and staffing levels against similar organizations or across hospitals within the enterprise. The benchmarking program provides a critical reference point for IT investment and helps with strategic planning decisions among senior executives and boards of trustees.
What makes this program unique?
- Healthcare-specific information
- Participation is easy, free of charge and doesn’t require SI membership
- Data is anonymous unless you choose to identify your organization withselected peers
- You own your data; SI does not resell it
An interactive tool in Excel, suitable for use at various levels, provides high-level graphic snapshots of several IT metrics compared with an appropriate peer group (samples below).
- Five-year trending analysis
- Interesting and relevant staffing information
- What-if analysis to support funding and resource conversations
- Access to all of the data for your internal use
To further help our participants in the area of staffing, we’ve created three provider-only organizational chart libraries for the following.
Access is restricted to provider organizations who contribute to it.
Can I learn more without committing to participate?
Yes, get additional details here:
How can I start?
Please use this form:
Robert Eardley, MBA, CPHIMS
SVP, CIO, University Hospitals
"The SI benchmarking tool has been invaluable in my discussions with senior leadership around cost of IT. It really gives a clean snapshot of University Hospitals to peer organizations. The many metrics in this tool makes it broader than cost alone."
Brent Snyder
CIO, Adventist Health System
“In comparing costs with other entities, most other databases don’t identify what’s being supported in the IT budget. SI’s design seems to provide a nice middle ground. It segments the organizations into relevant groups so you can see which organizations are at about the same level of clinical IT development as yours, or who are using the same vendors.”
Who uses SI Health IT Benchmarking?
Participating organizations are among the most advanced users of health IT, including:
- Adventist Health System
- Advocate Health Care
- Ascension Health
- Banner Health
- Baptist Health (KY)
- Emory Healthcare
- Henry Ford Health System
- Houston Methodist
- Intermountain Healthcare
- IU Health
- Memorial Health
- Northwestern Medicine
- Spectrum Health
- Texas Health Resources
- Trinity Health
- University Hospitals (OH)