About 80 percent of doctors are expected to have an electronic health record (EHR) by 2016, according to InformationWeek. The estimate is contained in “IDC MarketScape: U.S.A. Ambulatory EMR/EHR for Midsize and Large Practices 2011 Vendor Assessment,” a new report released by IDC Health Insights, which is based in Framingham, Mass. The report indicated that the EHR adoption rate among midsize and large practices was less than 25 percent in 2009, and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics reports that 57 percent of office-based physicians used EHR systems in 2011. READ MORE …
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