EHR adoption may not bring costs, quality benefits
Reporting requirements and the extra time spent learning and using new software may be limiting the payoff from using electronic health records, according to the New York Times.
Several healthcare professionals weighed in on how increased use of EHRs hasn’t always benefitted patients or providers. In one example, Peter Sutherland, MD, a family medicine physician at Morristown, Tenn.-based Healthstar Physicians, said since adopting a cloud-based system for billing and EHR in 2012, both his personal income and the group’s revenue have fallen by 8 percent.
“I’m working harder and getting a little less,” he said.
For more on Sutherland’s struggles with EHR, and what experts have to say about the disconnect between adoption and productivity, click on the link below:
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