Community hospitals aren't any happier with their EHR system than than larger counterparts, according to a survey conducted by healthcare research firm peer60.
More than half (54 percent) of the 227 community hospital providers surveyed said they were not satisfied with their system's usability and nearly 20 percent of those hospitals are actively looking to replace their EHR vendors.
Fifty-three percent of these providers have attested for Meaningful Use stage 2, leaving a sizable portion of hospitals still in the middle of attesting.
The peer60 report also found that community hospitals are increasingly giving up their independent status to partner or merge with larger health systems to not only survive financially but to access capital resources to fund technology infrastructure investments such as EHR systems that might otherwise be out of reach. Seven percent of hospitals were currently undergoing a merger or acquisition, which the report concludes “will continue to create churn in the marketplace for EHR solutions.”
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