Sixty-three percent of health care providers surveyed said electronic health records would have "a lot" or a "tremendous" impact on improving health care, according to a new survey by IVANS.
Twenty-seven percent of respondents said EHRs would have some impact on improving health care, 6% said EHRs would have little impact and 4% said EHRs would have no impact.
In addition, 11% of respondents said that health information exchanges would have a tremendous impact on facilitating information sharing, while 33% said health data exchanges would have a lot of impact. Forty-two percent of respondents said health data exchanges would have some impact on facilitating information sharing, 8% said they would have little impact and 6% said they would have no impact.
The survey found that 8.3% of respondents plan to participate in a health information exchange within 12 months, while 4.6% plan to participate in one to two years. In addition, 69.1% of respondents said they would consider participating in a health information exchange but do not have any current plans, while 18% said they have no plans to participate.
Results are based on an online survey of 420 health care providers conducted from June 18 to July 2.
Source: IVANS