While the cost of adopting and implementing an electronic health record remains the most pressing health IT concern for physicians, a recent survey suggests costs are less of a concern than in previous years.
According to the Physicians Practice 2014 Technology Survey, 26.2 percent of the 1,442 respondents who had not purchased an EHR said the cost of implementing the system was the main reason they had not yet done so. However, this percentage is 4 percentage points lower than the 2013 survey, suggesting that cost is becoming less of a concern, perhaps due to meaningful use incentive payments.
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