$40,000 Cost Per Practitioner Greatest Barrier To Adoption of EHRs

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Setting up an electronic health record (EHR) system costs $40,000 per doctor, and two-thirds of physicians who have not implemented EHRs cited cost as the reason. Adoption rates highlighted the cost effect:

4% of physicians have a fully functional EHR system
13% have a basic system
6% of physicians have purchased an EHR but not employed it
26% planned on buying one within the next two years.

In addition to cost, other factors affecting adoption rates were related to practice size and type:

EHR use is most prevalent among . . .