The article goes into detail on the many reasons...insurers are the bigger benefactors...and some states like Massachusetts are coming up to the plate with the E-health collaborative pilot project...and one other comment of importance..."EMRs are not plug and play"...lack of incentives from Congress is another reason...
In 2004, President Bush set a goal of most Americans using an electronic medical record by 2014. In his vision, doctors by then would be using EMR systems with interoperable standards that would allow them to share lab results, images, computerized orders and prescription information with hospitals and other health facilities.
So how much progress has been made in the past four years? Not nearly enough, many EMR experts say.The CDC study found 7.6% of physicians older than 65 use some form of EMR, compared with 47% of physicians younger than 35.
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