A report released last Thursday by CompTIA, an IT trade association, found that 50 percent of healthcare providers have adopted “comprehensive” or “partial” electronic health record systems, according to an article by iHealthBeat.
The study, which surveyed of 370 IT firms in the U.S. and 300 U.S. health care providers, had many interesting results.
Report Findings
- 34% of health care providers use a comprehensive EHR system;
- 16% reported using a partial EHR system;
- About 29% said they are evaluating their EHR options; and
- 20% said they had not looked at the issue.
EHR Satisfaction
Among health care providers who have adopted EHR systems:
- 59% said they were "completely" or "mostly" satisfied; and
- 36% said they were partly satisfied and partly dissatisfied.
As a side note, the report found that the biggest complaint that healthcare providers have of their EHR systems is reliability.