Electronic Health Record Use Can Vary by Practice Size and Race

A push for widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) has become a central part of the national health care debate, but a new study shows that the technology is not equally available to American patients.

Your own doctor’s use of EHRs mostly depends on whether she practices alone or as part of a group or clinic, with group practitioners more likely to adopt the new technology, the researchers found.

But researchers Esther Hing and Catharine Burt also uncovered differences in EHR adoption among the doctors who treat underserved minorities, which they report in the May issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

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