NY Times – Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records


External link:* http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/19patient.html

A new report from the New England Journal of Medicine says that even though doctors who use electronic health records claim those same records have helped the timeliness and quality of their care, only 1 in 5 doctors actually use such records.


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