The fraction of U.S. physicians with access to health IT swelled over the past four years, but is still far from pervasive, finds a study released June 7 by the Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonpartisan research group. The group conducted surveys of thousands of physicians from 2000 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2005 and found that the percentage claiming access to at least four of five clinical information technologies nearly doubled from 11 percent to 21 percent over the four-year period. For the complete article see eWeek |
