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Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals
Health Affairs has published an article on EMR adoption rates across all U.S. hospitals. Their findings more or less reinforce what other similar studies found, in particular:
We found that public and rural hospitals had 40 percent lower odds of having adopted at least a basic electronic record in the year before the survey, compared to private nonprofit and urban hospitals, respectively.
I’m curious to know why smaller hospitals are slow to adopt EMRs. Is it simply a matter of cost? Or are their existing paper systems functioning well enough that they see no need to change?
