The article reports on the lack of priority in promoting electronic medical records in Canada.
Bill Pascal, chief technology officer for the Canadian Medical Association, states that …

2010 National Physician Survey (NPS) shows that exclusive use of electronic medical
records (EMRs) by family physicians, general physicians, and other specialists across …

A recent editorial by Ken Flegel repeats the purported advantages of keeping electronic
medical records. 1 The results of the electronic conversion of paper records in other …

The good news is that the percentage of Canadian physicians using electronic medical
records (EMRs) has tripled over the past seven years, increasing from about one-quarter of …

Greater use of electronic medical records (EMRs) has the potential to improve the quality of
medical care and has become a goal of the US administration. According to the National …

North Shore Hospital System in New York recently announced that it will pay an incentive of
up to $40,000 to each physician in its network who adopts its electronic health record. Drs …

Billions of dollars have been invested in developing, implementing, and promoting an
electronic medical records system that Canadian physicians (EMR) and patients (electronic …

PURPOSE: Our purpose is to counter the common wisdom that doctors are refractory to
change and therefore responsible for the limited use of electronic medical records …

Objective To understand the key challenges to adoption of advanced features of electronic
medical records (EMRs) in office practice, and to better understand these challenges in a …

Low adoption of the electronic medical record persists despite obvious benefits of
centralized medical record management. A survey of Canadian care providers provided …