“The first comprehensive survey of its kind, to be published March 26 in The New England Journal of Medicine, has found that hospitals’ use of electronic health records is very limited. On the basis of responses from 3049 nonfederal acute-care hospitals, only 1.5 percent had what experts considered a comprehensive EHR, and 7.6 percent had a “basic” system that lacked decision support features, had only minimal order entry capability, and only had to be available in one clinical unit of the hospital. (To be classified as comprehensive, a system had to be used throughout the facility.) These figures are much lower than earlier estimates of hospital EHR penetration, based on less thorough surveys.”
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare, 25 March 2009
