Limited Information Technology for Patient Care in Physician Offices

September 2004 Limited Information Technology for Patient Care in Physician OfficesEvidence of physicians use of information technology (IT) to support patient care has been sketchy and anecdotal to date. However, new findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) show wide variation in information technology adoption across physician practices, particularly by physician practice size. In 2001, nearly 60 percent of physicians in traditional practice settings primarily solo or relatively small group practices where the vast majority of Americans receive care reported that their practice used information technology in no more than one of the five following clinical functions . . .