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Clinical IT gaps persist between small and large physician practices

E-Health Trend Watch, January 2, 2007

The proportion of physicians reporting access to IT for each of five clinical activities increased across all practice settings between 2000-2001 and 2004-2005, according to the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, DC. However, adoption gaps between small and large practices persisted for two of the clinical activities-obtaining treatment guidelines and exchanging clinical data with other physicians-and widened for the other three-accessing patient notes, generating preventive care reminders, and writing prescriptions.

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