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USA Today commentary lists many reasons for slow EHR adoption
EHR Connection, October 20, 2008
A laundry list of reasons explains why only 13% of U.S. physicians have transitioned to an EHR system, according to a commentary in the October 1 issue of USA Today.
Kevin Pho, MD, a primary care physician in Nashua, NH, and a member of the publication’s board of contributors, offers the following explanation in his commentary:
- Upfront costs can be as high as $36,000 per physician
- The learning curve for these programs is steep
- Physicians receive only 11% of the savings from EHRs with most going to health insurers and the government
- Rising office and malpractice costs make the decision to use digital records fiscally unpalatable
- Most electronic systems are problematic; many distill the patient encounter to a series of “yes” or “no” questions that yield computer-generated notes almost devoid of useful clinical information
- Few standards exist to allow the hundreds of products on the market to communicate with each other
- Modernizing health information technology in the United States will be expensive; estimates are in the hundreds of billions of dollars
Click here to read the complete commentary on EHRs in USA Today.
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