{"id":2829,"date":"2012-03-09T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2012-03-09T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:00:35","slug":"health-care-worry-of-continued-data-breaches-barrier-to-ehr-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/health-care-worry-of-continued-data-breaches-barrier-to-ehr-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care: EHR Adoption Increases, but Barriers Still Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electronic Health Records<\/a> (EHRs) is electronic information that records the state and history of a patient’s health. \u00a0The goal for EHRs is to enable the easy and secure exchange and sharing of digital health data between health care providers and institutions. \u00a0EHRs can include any of the following types of data: demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, vital signs, personal stats like age and weight, and billing information.<\/p>\n

EHRs have the potential to speed the delivery of medicine to patients, reduce costs, and minimize errors. \u00a0A recent report from the Optum Institute for Sustainable Health<\/a> shows that that while adoption of EHRs is steadily increasing, patients remain wary of the security of the technology. \u00a0A Ponemon study <\/a>on the security of EHRs found that the number of data breaches in 2011 surged by 32 percent. \u00a0The Ponemon study also found that the cost of resolving each data breach is typically in the millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

But beyond security, other barriers that potentially block the success of EHR technology include:<\/p>\n