More Doctors Adopt
Electronic Health Records
July 10 Kaiser
Health News Capsule
"The
nation's top Health IT official is lauding the nation's doctors for more widely
adopting electronic health records in the past few years, but he and new
studies say more work is needed to help the systems communicate with each
other."
"CQ HealthBeat: Mostashari: It's Crunch Time
For Health IT Adoption
Farzad Mostashari, the nation's top health IT official, said Tuesday that policymakers, doctors and hospitals should take a bit of a victory lap because of the widespread adoption of electronic medical records that has occurred in their industry since the 2009 economic stimulus law. But he warned that even though they are passing significant milestones, they have a long way to go (Reichard, 7/10)."
Farzad Mostashari, the nation's top health IT official, said Tuesday that policymakers, doctors and hospitals should take a bit of a victory lap because of the widespread adoption of electronic medical records that has occurred in their industry since the 2009 economic stimulus law. But he warned that even though they are passing significant milestones, they have a long way to go (Reichard, 7/10)."
"Medpage Today: EHR
Adoption Steady, But More Work Needed
Physicians are continuing to adopt electronic health records at a steady clip, but more work is needed to have those systems communicate with each other, according to two studies published Tuesday. In 2012, 72 percent of physicians had adopted some type of EHR system and 38.2 percent had capabilities required for a basic system, a review by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Md., found. The number of basic EHR adopters was up from just over 25 percent in 2010, Chun-Ju Hsiao, PhD, and colleagues reported in a study that appeared online in Health Affairs (Pittman, 7/9)."
Physicians are continuing to adopt electronic health records at a steady clip, but more work is needed to have those systems communicate with each other, according to two studies published Tuesday. In 2012, 72 percent of physicians had adopted some type of EHR system and 38.2 percent had capabilities required for a basic system, a review by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Md., found. The number of basic EHR adopters was up from just over 25 percent in 2010, Chun-Ju Hsiao, PhD, and colleagues reported in a study that appeared online in Health Affairs (Pittman, 7/9)."
PS I am not impressed. Too many unanswered
questions. What does “some type of EHR
system “mean? And what does “capabilities
for a basic system” mean? The fact that
more work is “needed” to have the systems communicate with one another, is also a dead giveaway that EHRs are still
in the primitive stages of development.
How many of these systems meet the highly touted :meaningful use”
critera? Methinks there is more smoke
than fire here.
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