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41% of office-based doctors plan
to achieve meaningful use

Forty-one percent of office-based physicians plan to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) and apply for incentive payments from the government, according to a survey by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and discussed
by David Blumental, MD, MPP, national coordinator
for health information technology (HIT), in a posting
on his blog. Read full article.

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Survey: EHRs seen as positive for patient care, especially by those
in larger practices

Electronic health records (EHRs) will have a positive effect on patient care, according to 39% of doctors participating in the 2011 Thomson Reuters - HCPlexus National Physicians Survey. Read full article.

Quality focus, coordinated implementation needed to
realize benefits of EHRs

Those in the healthcare system will need to focus on quality control and coordinated implementation to realize the potential of EHRs and clinical decision support (CDS) software to improve clinical care, according to the authors of research published online by the Archives of Internal Medicine. Read full article.

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