Why they don't buy
Quick View. July 21, 2003.
| Barrier to EMR |
2002 |
2003 |
| Lack of adequate funding or resources |
59% |
64% |
| Lack of support by the medical staff |
35% |
37% |
| Inability to find EMR systems or components at an affordable price |
32% |
32% |
| Difficulty creating a migration plan from paper to electronic records |
31% |
29% |
| Difficulty in finding an EMR that is not fragmented over several vendors or information technology platforms |
29% |
30% |
| Inadequate health care information standards, data sets or code sets |
25% |
23% |
| Difficulty evaluating systems |
25% |
17% |
| Unable to find EMR that meets application or technical requirements |
23% |
27% |
| Difficulty making a strong return-on-investment |
20% |
22% |
| Lack of structured medical terminology case for an EMR |
12% |
18% |
| Inability to guarantee round-the-clock access to an EMR |
N/A |
10% |
The top obstacles keeping physicians and health care organizations from implementing electronic medical records are lack of funding and lack of clinician support, according to a survey released by the Medical Records Institute.
The results are based on 576 physician and health care organization responses from April 15 through May 23. The percentages add up to more than 100% because respondents were asked to select all applicable reasons.
Source: British Medical Journal, June 28
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