Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012
For Physicians
U.S. a leader in physician health IT use, study says
A new study has found that the United States is a leader in health information technology (IT) use and adoption by physicians. The United States is also one of the few countries in which health IT penetration is nearly equal among primary physicians and specialists.
The study, released this month by Reston, Va.-based consulting firm Accenture, looked at eight countries—Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the U.S. The United States performed above several countries in the use of health IT and was a leader in many capabilities of health information exchanges, including ePrescribing, computerized physician order entry, e-referrals and administrative tools, according to the findings of the U.S. study.
Accenture also found that about 62 percent of specialists in the U.S. are using electronic tools to improve administrative efficiency, compared to a 49 percent global average. More than half of U.S. primary care doctors, the most of any country surveyed, are using ePrescribing to send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically, compared to just 20 percent on average for the other countries.
For the study, Accenture interviewed health leaders—including government officials, clinicians, health information specialists, academics and analysts—and conducted a survey of 3,700 physicians across the eight countries as well as secondary research.
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