“A recent study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change, or HSC, reveals a gap between what the federal government hopes health information technology, or health IT, can achieve in terms of patient care coordination and how well the technology actually assists physicians in practice.
“Are Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) Helpful for Care Coordination? Experiences of Physician Practices,” which was published online Dec. 22 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that “there is a gap between policymakers’ expectation of current EMRs’ role in the coordination of care and clinicians’ real-world experience with (these systems)”.”
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AAFP News Now, 16 February 2010
Abstract (O’Malley 2009)
