U.S. Slower to Adopt Health IT Than Other Countries

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News In the United States only 28% of physicians use electronic medical records (EMRs), leading only Canada, where 23% of physicians use EMRs. In the United Kingdom (U.K.), 88% of primary care physicians can generate lists of medications that patients take, including those prescribed by other doctors, compared with only 37% of doctors in the U.S. 98% of doctors in the Netherlands, 92% in New Zealand, 79% in Australia, and 42% in Germany use EMRs. These are findings of a report entitled “Health Information Technology and Physician Perceptions of Quality . . .