EHR adoption continues to rise nationwide, but a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals considerable variation in adoption state to state.

The reason why the medical profession has been slow to adopt technology at the point of care is that there is an asymmetry of benefits, David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, former national coordinator of health IT, said in an interview published in The Atlantic.

The federal government has now paid out more than $24 billion in incentives through the Meaningful Use program, National Coordinator for Health IT, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, said at a Federal Trade Commission event.

The findings of a survey released this week seem to encapsulate the dilemma EHRs pose: physicians find them both promising and frustrating.

Clinical Innovation + Technology was on hand at HIMSS14 to cover healthcare IT trends. We stopped in the Vital Images booth to learn more about images and the EMR.

South San Francisco, CA – March 20, 2014 – First Databank (FDB), a leading provider of integrated drug knowledge, today announced the company’s medication reconciliation solution, FDB MedsTracker, has achieved 2014 Edition Ambulatory and Inpatient Modular EHR ONC Health IT Certification. The solution was certified on by ICSA Labs, an Office of the National Coordinator-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) and is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The Department of Veterans Affairs is working to achieve seamless integration of its VistA EHR with the Department of Defense’s separate system by 2017, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs during its FY 2015 budget hearing.

EHR adoption has been steadily increasing over the past few years but physicians see the systems as a source of both promise and frustration, according to a report from RAND Health.