“In 2004, former President George W. Bush announced a goal of providing most U.S. residents with electronic health records by 2014. President Obama raised the stakes when he called for all Americans to have EHRs by 2014 and said he would allocate $50 billion over five years to support the transition to digital records.
Health IT proponents have, by and large, lauded the federal government’s efforts to promote EHR adoption. The hope is that with the federal government’s support — both financially and politically — more and more physicians will make the transition to digital records. It seems like sound logic, but a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds that is not what is happening.”
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Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat, 28 May 2009
