Another EHR hurdle: Patients don’t care for them

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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