This article at iHealthBeat reveals that only 4% of small physician’s practices have an electronic health record. The other statistics relating physician use of EHR’s in hospitals are sobering as well. The bottom line is that while electronic records store and retrieve data efficiently, they remain expensive, labor intensive, and inefficient. As I’ve said before, I am very glad my office has an EHR, but I doubt I would implement one at this time if I was in private practice. Someday maybe, but not yet.
