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Thursday, February 11, 2010
The number of doctors replacing their paper records with electronic health records has indeed grown since the government's healthcare IT stimulus package was signed into law. A survey performed by GfK Roper for IT vendor Practice Fusion interviewed 1,000 U.S. adults via the telephone from February 5 to February 7, 2010. Here are some findings:
The number of doctors using EHRs is steadily growing. - More than 48% of the people said their doctor or specialist stored medical records electronically in the examination room, as opposed to writing information on paper charts.
- Of those patients, more than 45% said their doctor made the switch in the last two years.
- More than 14% said the switch occurred in the last six months. More than 38% of the respondents wanted their doctors to go digital, while almost 33% did not. Nearly 29% were not sure.
Higher-income patients were more likely to see their doctors using an EHR system. -Nearly 53% of the respondents with incomes of more than $50,000 a year had doctors using digital records, compared to about 45% of people with incomes under $20,000 a year.
The government's stimulus package will reward doctors and hospitals for using electronic health record systems in "meaningful" ways starting in 2011. Health care professionals are starting to prepare now, which is resulting in growth in the usage of electronic health records in health care organizations nationwide.
How does EHR implementation affect your
medical coding career? The increasing use of electronic health records (EHR) will continue to broaden and alter the job responsibilities of medical coders. You will need to have knowledge of EHR software to analyze data, assign medical codes and maintain the security of health records.
(Source: Antone Gonsalves, Information Week)
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