“The healthcare industry won’t realize the full value of its investment in electronic health records until it finds secondary uses for all of the data being captured, such as predicting public health trends and improving patient care, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group.
Seventy-six percent of the more than 700 healthcare executives surveyed in June 2009 said that the information gathered in EHRs will be their organization’s biggest asset in the next five years.”
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Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media, 6 October 2009
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