A recent survey indicates that most office-based physicians using Electronic Health Records software are somewhat or very satisfied with the technology. Â The survey by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 55% of respondents used an EHR system in 2011; of those, 47% said they were somewhat satisfied with their system, and 38% were very satisfied.
Over 70% of those using at least some EHR technology said that they would purchase their EHR systems again, and more than three-quarters stated that their systems met federal meaningful use requirements. Â Almost half of the respondents who did not have an EHR system implemented said that they planned to buy one, or use an already-purchased system, within the next year. Â Other results regarding the physicians currently using EHRs include 74% who remotely accessed patients’ charts in their systems within the past month and 41% who were alerted to potential medication errors by their EHRs within the past month.
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