EHR buyers replacing systems increases

Beth Walsh | | Health Exec | EMR/EHR

A growing number of buyers are replacing their EHRs. According to a three-year study conducted by Software Advice, the number of buyers who purchased new EHRs to replace their current EHRs increased by almost 50 percent--from 21 percent to 31 percent between 2010 and 2013.

The company collected and analyzed data on thousands of practices looking to purchase medical software, partly to determine the impact the HITECH Act has had on EHR demand.

The survey found that almost 65 percent of buyers bought EHRs to replace paper records in 2010, while 50.9 percent bought EHRs for that reason in 2013. In 2010, 58.8 percent of buyers replacing an existing EHR were doing so because they were dissatisfied with their current EHR software or vendor, and by 2013, that percentage increased to 74.2 percent. The percentage of buyers opening a new practice and looking to start off paperless grew from 12.2 percent in 2010 to 16.4 percent in 2013.

Beth Walsh,

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Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.

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