hospitals are also slow to adopt electronic records system, found a report the New England Journal of Medicine, reported the Associated Press and the Austin American-Statesman .
electronic records investigation by the NEJM found less than 2 percent of US hospitals have fully implemented and only 8-11 percent of basic electronic systems
most point to cost as the biggest deterrent to make the change - .. it costs thousands of dollars to move to electronic medical records
But this AP article / Statesman also raised a good point: What should be the standard software for electronic documents
for electronic documents to be really effective to improve communication, systems of health care providers and health insurance companies must . to talk to each other and send data in formats compatible
Obama administration, like the previous Bush administration, made a goal for all health care providers to spend - they even allocated 19 $ billion to help the recovery Act and uS investment in 09.
But we are not sure whether or not they come with a standard procedure for all this.
Maybe it's a good thing the health care providers are slow to move.
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