Is It This Bad?
A recently survey on EMR adoption from the Medical Records Institute (sponsors of the TEPR show) revealed that:
• Nearly 19% of respondents indicated they either have in the past experienced the de-installation of an EMR system (12%) or are now going through a de-installation (7%).
• Slightly more than 8% of those surveyed indicated they'd removed their EMRs and gone back to paper, with 6% indicating the removal occurred in the past, while another 2% responded that they were now experiencing the reversion to paper.
• 30% of respondents indicated they either have had an EMR in the past (12%) that not all clinicians used because some refused to do so, or that they now have a system (18%) and are experiencing the same recalcitrance by some clinicians.
• When switching systems, the trend has been to downgrade to less-expensive, less-complicated EMRs than to more-expensive, complicated ones.
If you add up the number of negative responses and divide it by the total number of respondents it shows that a bit more than 50% of the respondents have had a negative experience with EMR. That's technology for you, whether it's an EMR or PC.
Posted by Shawn Whalen on November 2, 2007 at 12:16 PM
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