UBM Medica US’s Physicians Practice has completed its 8th annual survey of physicians and administrators on their use of technology. The results reveal sluggish progress, despite government incentives to speed things up.
Electronic health records (EHR) adoption and implementation is the biggest technology concern for the physicians we surveyed, with 24 percent saying it’s their number one concern, topping concerns about communicating with other healthcare providers or other issues. While the industry as a whole has assumed ever-faster adoption of EHRs in response to fiscal incentives, physicians are proving, like most people, to have a more over-determined sense of what might motivate them to pick up the systems. Incentive money alone won’t overcome high prices and low usability…
