No surprise, since the barriers to obtain an EHR are so great:
U.S. doctors increasingly have access to computers to look up information on their patients, but more than half still don’t have digital health records or the ability to write electronic prescriptions, a study released Wednesday found.Twenty-two percent of doctors surveyed by the Center for Studying Health System Change last year had access to electronic prescription tools compared with 11 percent in 2001.
Two ways to have physicians rapidly adopt EHRs: 1) subsidies, so small practices and physicians can afford the often large EHR expenses; 2) compensation for lost productivity as workflow adapts to an EHR-based practice.
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Why, as an MD, am I expected to pay thousands of dollars for a system that can be violated into which I put very private patient information? If another MD needs this info he/she can call me.
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