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COPYRIGHT 2005 Eli Research, Inc.
Small or solo medical practices have been slow to adopt electronic health records--and once they do, many of them struggle for several years before recouping costs and beginning to realize financial and other benefits, two new studies on the state of EHR technology adoption concluded.
More than 3,300 medical group practices participated in the "Assessing Adoption of Health Information Technology" study, which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded and the Medical Group Management Association Center for Research and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health conduct ed. Released Sept. 14, the study reported current rates of EHR adoption, which EHR features practices use most frequently, barriers to adopting an EHR, and how users rated the benefits of EHR adoption.
Despite state and federal efforts to encourage adoption of these technologies, group practices most frequently cited "lack of capital resources to invest in EHR" as the top barrier to adoption. The report suggested that--with the return on investment in terms of cost and quality not being self-evident--another important barrier to adoption is that practices are not convinced EHRs will...
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