Does Your Doctor Use an Electronic Health Record?

This week's New England Journal of Medicine publishes a health policy report about electronic health records (EHRs).  The article reviews the potential benefits of EHRs to patients and to physicians and laments that as of 2005 only about 23% of physicians used them. The reasons for the slow adoption of EHRs provide an instructive illustration of deep problems in our healthcare marketplace.  EHRs are exp...
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