Could Federal Government Efforts Be Slowing EHR Adoption?
In 2004, former President George W. Bush announced a goal of providing most U.S. residents with electronic health records by 2014. President Obama raised the stakes when he called for all Americans to have EHRs by 2014 and said he would allocate $50 billion over five years to support the transition to digital records. Health IT proponents have, by and large, lauded the federal government’s efforts to promote EHR adoption. The hope is that with the federal government’s support — both financially and politically — more and more physicians will make the transition to digital records. It seems like sound logic, but a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds that is not what is happening. The study, titled “Resistance Is Futile: But It Is Slowing the Pace of EHR Adoption Nonetheless,” compared EHR adoption rates from 2001 to 2004 — a period of very low levels of government EHR promotion — with EHR adoption rates from 2005 to 2007 — a period of incr
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