{"id":6366,"date":"2016-06-06T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2016-05-02T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:54:12","slug":"ehr-record-systems-new-electronic-systems-have-yet-to-provide-expected-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/ehr-record-systems-new-electronic-systems-have-yet-to-provide-expected-value\/","title":{"rendered":"EHR Record Systems: New Electronic Systems Have Yet to Provide Expected Value"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago physicians were scrambling to comply with new regulations that mandated the use of electronic health records <\/a>(EHR). \u00a0Now that 80 percent of physicians have adopted EHRs we might expect to see some of the expected benefits that drove the adoption of the original mandate.<\/p>\n

A new survey finds that we’re not there just yet. \u00a0Even though data is being recorded electronically, a survey by HealthMine<\/a> found that only 22 percent of users with digital health records are using that information to help them make health decisions.<\/p>\n

Jeanne Madden<\/a>, associate professor at Northeastern University, said that “many people talk about EHRs as if they\u2019re somehow complete, but they aren\u2019t.\u00a0Providers only know what happens at their own sites and what actually gets entered into their own EHRs. Insurers, meanwhile, tend to know pretty much the entire picture of the patient\u2019s utilization.”<\/p>\n

Many hospitals are still suffering the costs required to have implemented their EHR systems. \u00a0Doug Brown<\/a>, managing partner of Black Book, said that <\/a>“it was a risky decision as hospitals were facing the fact that they would not be back to their pre-EHR implementation patient volumes, inpatient or ambulatory, for at least another five years. \u00a0No other industry spends so much per unit of IT on the part of the business that is shrinking the fastest and holds little growth as did inpatient revenues.”<\/p>\n

This isn’t to say that implementation of EHR systems was the wrong decision, but the benefits from the new technology are going to take a longer time to achieve than was originally expected.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago physicians were scrambling to comply with new regulations that mandated the use of electronic health records (EHR). \u00a0Now that 80 percent of physicians have adopted EHRs we might expect to see some of the expected benefits…<\/span><\/p>\n

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