‘A new landmark study on EHRs was published this week, and its implications for widespread physician adoption of traditional (“legacy”) EHR technology—particularly by high-performance specialists—are dismal. Published on December 14 in the well-respected Milbank Quarterly, the study represents the most thorough EHR analysis to-date, basing its conclusions on an exhaustive review of 195 previous studies. Confirming the previously acknowledged EHR failure rate of 50%—quoted by then “IT Czar” David Brailer, M.D.—the lead author estimated the actual failure rate to be as high as 50%-80% of implementations, as reported in Healthcare IT News.”
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk, 16 December 2009
Article (Greenhalgh 2009)
