Medical Information Systems: Benefits and Roadblocks to Full Implementation

Consult different authorities and you’ll get varying estimates of the rate of adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), ranging from 60 percent down to less than five percent. Although a large part of this is due to the discrepancy between implementations of in-patient (acute) and out-patient (ambulatory) systems, a bigger reason is that EMRs themselves encompass such a broad range of varying functionality. Read more...

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