From iPods To Cloud Computing – 2001 To Now

Grazed from OpenMinds. Author: Monica E. Oss.

Greetings from Washington, D.C.! As I prepared for tomorrow’s 2016 OPEN MINDS Technology & Informatics Institute, I came across some stats in a technology survey OPEN MINDS conducted in 2001. It was a trip down memory lane. Wikipedia launched online. Microsoft released the Xbox. The use of wireless local area networking (LANs) exploded. Apple released the iPod. AOL topped 35 million members. Those were the tech developments everyone was talking about. Where were health and human service provider organizations in 2001?

• 32% of organizations reported that all of their employees had access to the internet
• 22% of organizations communicated with consumers via email
• 78% of organizations had a public website
• 44% of organizations had practice management software…

And where are we today? I’m giving a preview of the technologies organizations are using in 2016 at the opening of the institute tomorrow in The 2016 OPEN MINDS Health & Human Services Technology Survey. OPEN MINDS surveyed nearly 200 provider organization executives about their use of technology. Our survey found that the most common technology tools in use today are operational – with 75% of organizations reporting that they used some type of financial management system; 64% reporting that they used a scheduling system for staff and/or consumers; 59% reporting that they used hosted storage and cloud storage tools; and 74% reporting that they used an electronic health record…

Read more from the source @ https://www.openminds.com/market-intelligence/executive-briefings/ipods-cloud-computing-2001-now/