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New Study Pinpoints Issues with EHR Adoption in US Health Care
Posted on: Friday, May 15, 2009
In a recent survey of over 3000 US health care facilities, only 12% had adopted the most basic electronic medical records, and only 1.5% had implemented all the points needed to be in compliance with new EHR standards. While the government has provided funding to convert hospitals over to approved EHR methods, the numbers offered in the survey are sobering at best, discouraging at worst.
“Most hospitals in the U.S. do not have an EHR. Most hospitals are in that early stage of one, two or three functionalities,” according to physician Ashish Jha, assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Jha went on to say that if any VA hospitals had been included, the number of implementers would double as all VA hospitals have a proper EHR system up and running.
The report was released by the New England Journal of Medicine and mirrored preliminary results which were released last November. The researchers noted that other studies have shown a higher rate of EHR penetration due to lower order definitions of what constitutes a proper EHR system. An EHR system was properly defined by IT experts in conjunction with physicians for the purposes of the study.
Physician usage of the EHR system is also a key to success. It is only when physicians are entering the data themselves, and not getting another staff member to do it, that the system has been implemented properly. For this reason EHR systems must be efficient to use and allow the physician to enter the information in as little time as possible.
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