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Quick View. July 21, 2003.

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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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