Florida leading the rush for EHR implementation, survey says. - February 26, 2010
Orlando Florida -- Florida docs grow more bullish on EHRs, survey finds
Physician use of electronic health records continued to grow in Florida last year, with younger doctors and primary-care physicians leading the charge with indirect access specialists—such as anesthesiologists and emergency medicine doctors—lagging behind, according to the survey.
The survey also found that purchase, training and implementation costs are dropping and that almost 60% of the respondents reported interest in qualifying for the EHR subsidies included in the under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus law.
Forty-three percent of the survey of 370 physicians said that they use an EHR, compared with 33% in 2007 and 27% in 2005. The number of respondents wanting to implement an EHR system was virtually unchanged: 41% in 2009 compared with 40% in 2007. But the number of physicians who said they had no plans to implement a system fell to 16% in 2009 from 25% in 2007.
According to the survey, 60% of respondents under 40 years old are using an EHR compared with 48% in 2007 and 37% in 2009.
The survey found that, among respondents currently using an EHR, the median purchase, training and implementation costs fell to $18,000 in 2009 compared with $25,000 in 2007; and monthly maintenance cost decreased to $350 from $425 during the same period.
When asked what they liked the most about their systems, 76% of EHR-using respondents said electronic charting, while half cited awkward or time-consuming data input as what they liked the least about their systems.
Among physicians who plan to implement an EHR, 14% are in some stage of implementation (up from 11% in 2007); 16% plan to do so within six months (compared to 17% in 2007); 22% plan to implement in six to 12 months (down from 24% in 2007); 35% are planning to implement in one to two years (37% in 2007); and 13% said it will be more than two years before they do so (up from 11% in 2007).
the Top pick for the three year in a row, Misys MyWay, now part of Allscripts. Of the respondents who said they had no plans to implement an electronic record system, 72% cited prohibitive costs—up from 63% in 2007. Among all respondents, 59% said they will try to quality for federal EHR subsidies by showing that they are putting their systems to meaningful use.
The survey was conducted in October and November 2009, and it had a 4% response rate from more than 10,000 physicians who received the survey in either e-mail or paper formats.
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