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EHRs still not routine part of medical practice
E-Health Trend Watch, December 15, 2006
In the most comprehensive study to date to reliably measure the state of electronic health record (EHR) use by doctors and hospitals, researchers from Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and Washington, DC-based George Washington University estimate that one in four doctors (24.9%) uses an EHR to improve delivery of care to patients. However, fewer than one in 10 uses what experts define as a "fully operational" system that collects patient information, displays test results, allows providers to enter medical orders and prescriptions, and helps doctors make treatment decisions.
The study, "Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base for Progress" is a joint effort by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the federal government's National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. It shows that EHR adoption rates remain low due to financial, technical, and legal barriers. The report authors write that the barriers will prevent the health sector from meeting President George W. Bush's desired goal of ensuring that most Americans have their medical information collected, stored, and organized in an EHR by 2014.
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