Impact of the HITECH act on physicians' adoption of electronic health records

Conclusion The authors find weak evidence of the impact of the MU program on EHR uptake. This is consistent with reports that many current EHR systems reduce physician productivity, lack data sharing capabilities, and need to incorporate other key interoperability features (e.g., application program interfaces).

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - July 30, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mennemeyer, S. T., Menachemi, N., Rahurkar, S., Ford, E. W. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research