Survey: Few U.S. hospitals totally converted to EHR
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, April 2, 2009
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A survey directed by a physician who will soon become President Barack Obama’s health information technology chief found less than two percent of the nation’s hospitals have completely converted to a digital medical record keeping system, according to a March 25 Technology Review article.
Earlier this year, the administration laid out a goal of getting the nation’s hospitals to move to electronic health records (EHR) by 2014. It also included $19 billion in stimulus bill funding to help make this happen.
The biggest barriers to implementing comprehensive EHR are the high cost of implementation and maintenance, and exchanging information between various providers’ computing systems, David Blumenthal, MD, who will soon take over as Obama’s national coordinator for health information technology, said at a press conference last week.
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