32 Chapter 2 TABLE 5: Hospital Size by EMRAM Stage Stage 0-2 Stage 3-5 Stage 6 and 7 Mean Row N% Count Mean Row N% Count Mean Row N% Count number of beds 422 37.9% 501 50.0% 582 12.1% number of beds 0<340<562 large 28.6% 6 57.1% 12 14.3% 3 medium 30.8% 8 57.7% 15 11.5% 2 small 57.9% 11 31.6% 6 10.5% 2 Larger hospitals tended to have more advanced EMR capabilities than smaller hospitals H4: Academic affiliated hospitals are more likely to have advanced EMR capabilities. Academic affiliated hospitals not only have a higher percentage of Stage 6 and Stage 7 hospitals (21.2%) than general hospitals (10.3%) but have a much lower percentage of hospitals in the entry EMRAM stages (27,3% versus 48,7% respectively) (see Table 6). These findings support the hypothesis that hospital type tends to influence a hospital’s EMR capabilities. TABLE 6: Hospital type by EMRAM Stage Stage 0-2 Stage 3-5 Stage 6 and 7 Count Row N% Count Row N% Count Row N% academic affiliated Yes 9 27.3% 17 51.5% 7 21.2% No 19 48.7% 16 41.0% 4 10.3% Academic affiliated hospitals have more advanced EMR capabilities. H5: Hospitals with a relatively higher ICT budget tend to have more advanced EMR capabilities. Findings of this study (reflected in Table 7) support the hypothesis that hospitals with advanced EMR capabilities tend to have higher ICT budgets than those hospitals with lower EMR capabilities. The budgetary demands appear to grow in a fairly linear manner, raising notable concerns worthy of future exploration.
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