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Survey: Patients in favor of EHRs

Patient Financial Services Weekly Advisor, May 25, 2007

Forty-seven percent of respondents to Kaiser Permanente's recent telephone survey of 1,000 Americans say that paper records are more secure than electronic health records (EHR). In addition, 57% say that they have never heard or read about EHRs.

Despite this unfamiliarity, however, 73% agree that the benefits of EHRs in emergencies and in improving quality of care outweigh privacy and security worries.

The survey also found that:

  • 51% would choose a physician who used EHRs over one who didn't, if they had the same qualifications

  • 72% say that EHRs are more efficient

  • 31% say that better emergency care is the greatest benefit of EHR use
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