Study: Physician EMR adoption up, but systems chosen are limited

A new study by the CDC suggests that while physician EMR adoption continues to grow, the rate at which doctors adopt comprehensive systems remains flat. The CDC report, which looked at 2006 EMR usage, found that 25.9 percent of medical practices said that they use full or partial EMR systems, up 42 percent from 2005. However, there didn't appear to be a meaningful increase in the use of comprehensive systems, which the CDC considers as being systems which have CPOE functions for tests and prescriptions, automated test reporting and clinical notes. The number of doctors using comprehensive EMR systems grew to 12.4 percent in 2006, up from 9.3 percent in 2005, but that's not a statistically-significant increase, the agency said.

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