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Efficiency, convenience top concerns for EHR adopters
Physician Practice Advisor, September 13, 2006
Eighty-two percent of physician practices cited efficiency and convenience as top factors driving electronic health record (EHR) adoption, according to a survey conducted by the Medical Records Institute, a Boston-based organization that promotes EHR adoption.
Other major factors influencing EHR adoption for physician practices included increased revenue from better charge capture and coding (60%) and patient/physician satisfaction (53%).
Additional findings from the study include the following:
- 40% of respondents' EHRs allow for remote access, and 21% of plan to enable remote access to in the future
- 80% of do not plan to integrate radio frequency identification technology into their practices for tracking purposes
- 7% of those surveyed said their EHR supports drug reference data access
Click here to download the Medical Records Institute survey.
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