Another EHR hurdle: Patients don’t care for them

December 6, 2006

Physicians are reluctant to adopt EHRs, now comes a study suggesting that patients don’t believe that they will improve healthcare:

“Our research shows that American consumers are not banging down any doors for an EHR or a PHR,” said James Fisher, national director for Health IT at PricewaterhouseCoopers. “The primary reason for the lack of public support is that the average American does not see a clear value proposition in electronic health records.”

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1 Anonymous December 6, 2006 at 11:01 pm

The difference is that its not meant to show value to the patient. Question is under optimal circumstances, are EMR’s useful for the doctor. Once we can make it useful for the MD, only then will people then see it as good for them.
I can’t belive that p4p has so much momentum but EHR are floundering in “is it worth it”

2 Anonymous December 8, 2006 at 7:14 pm

I don’t like the thought of my doctor being able to access my health record on his laptop at home. How secure is his/her laptop? How can I trust that my personal health information isn’t ending up in someone else’s (or a bunch of people’s) hands. I don’t like it. This scares the hell out of me.

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