http://govhealthit.com/articles/2009/03/25/ehr-adoption-abysmally-low-in-hospitals tiny percentage of U.S. hospitals use e-health records, according to a new survey by a team that includes the incoming national coordinator for health information technology. Fewer than 8 percent of hospitals have EHRs in even one clinical department, and only 1.5 percent have EHRs for all clinical departments, the researchers reported in today’s online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
