“Only approximately ten percent of hospitals have a fully functional electronic medical record. Causes sited for this low adoption rate are cost, the immensity of the task, physician resistance and the sparcity of truly comprehensive EMR packages. There are definite advantages including clarity of documentation, completeness of documentation, timeline identification, ease of access. Many hospitals information services are kept busy with the daily efforts of maintaining a multidimensional information system in a very complex environment. Likely the adoption rate will accelerate as EMR software matures making implementation easier and more comprehensive.one expects a company that could offer a turnkey product would do well, especially if it coordinated inpatient, outpatient ER and specialty clinic care.”
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GLG News, 27 March 2009
