A new study from the Commonwealth Fund found that only a minority of solo physicians have adopted extensive health information technology (HIT) capabilities.
A new study from the Commonwealth Fund found that only a minority of solo physicians have adopted extensive health information technology (HIT) capabilities.
The study, from the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, appears in a recent issue of Health Services Research. Researchers looked at data from the 2012 and 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians. Over the course of those four years, the rate of adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) by U.S. primary care physicians increased from 46 percent to 69 percent.
