“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2011 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), the EHR adoption rate for Rhode Island, at 45 percent, is classified as significantly lower among the total U.S. office-based physicians’ adoption rate of 57 percent.
Despite a quickening trend towards EHR adoption, barriers to implementation still exist and they seem especially hard to break for small practices. However, that’s what the panel of physicians suggested to their colleagues – that implementing an EHR was easier than they thought.”
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Luke Gale, CMIO, 12 December 2011
