A recent study of safety net clinics adopting open source electronic health records found that althoughthe average cost of an open source program was 30 percent to 60 percent lower than that of a similar commercial EHR system, several obstacles remain. The main challenges to increased adoption, according tothe University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, are the cost of modification and training and a lack of internal expertise to customize the systems.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.