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Apr 03 2014

Another Government Accounting Office report highlights the delays and cost overruns associated with the Department of Defense's EHR projects.

http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/662045.pdf
Mar 03 2014

According to KLAS, half of all 200+ bed hospitals will select a new EHR by 2016, but most have already decided which vendor they will use.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/half-of-hospitals-will-purchase-new-EHR-47326-1.html?utm_campaign=daily-mar%201%202014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Feb 12 2014

According to a GlobalData report the market for electronic medical records will hit $17 billion in 2017. McKesson is the current market leader at $3.3 billion in sales for 2012, followed by Cerner at $2.7 billion and Allscripts at $1.5 billion.

http://drugstorenews.com/article/report-market-electronic-health-records-reach-17-billion-2017
Jan 21 2014

The Centers for Disease Control released a report on usage of electronic medical records by physicians, finding that 78.4% of physicians have some kind of EHR in 2013, up from 51% in 2010, but only 48.1% are using a "basic" system, one that would support meaningful use requirements.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db143.pdf
Jan 06 2014

In another sign of the rising dissatisfaction with electronic medical record systems, a hospital has sued NextGen over its delivery of an EMR to the hospital.

http://www.fierceemr.com/story/hospital-sues-nextgen-over-emr-implementation/2014-01-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Dec 02 2013

Displaying the cost of lab tests in an EHR led to a reduction in orders for the tests by primary care physicians, according to research in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-013-2672-1
Nov 25 2013

A new survey from IDC Health Insights finds that 58% of outpatient providers are unhappy with their EHRs, many very dissatisfied, primarily because of a negative effect on productivity.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131113006395/en/IDC-Health-Insights-Survey-Ambulatory-Providers-Reveals
Nov 07 2013

As government auditors begin to look at the billions of dollars in EHR incentive payments, firms are having to return some of them that were inappropriately received.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20131106/NEWS/311069943/some-ehr-payments-going-back-to-government-as-auditors-look-into?AllowView=VW8xUmo5Q21TcWJOb1gzb0tNN3RLZ0h0MWg5SVgra3NZRzROR3l0WWRMWGFWZjBIRWxiNUtpQzMyWmFxNTNvWUpiaWliUVF3eWtaVTUyZUZRZUl3bWlhUnFNV3JIOWk2WHFVZFI2b0MzNjJ1YTY2bTdOTkVidFNZOUU1akZ1czFtQzhEb3ZRcFMzL3B3MEpXNkJtblVaTHg4Ylk9
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