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E M R
R E A D E R
S U R V E Y
What Stage Are You at With Your EMR?
ASCs
10.8%
Just Getting Started
16.2%
Somewhere in the Middle
25.7%
Almost There
47.3%
Fully Implemented
Hospitals
13.2%
Just Getting Started
22.0%
Somewhere in the Middle
36.3%
Almost There
28.6%
Fully Implemented
SOURCE: Outpatient Surgery Magazine Reader Survey, January 2013 (141 ASCs, 92 hospitals)
Where are we now?
Hospitals now have to use certified EMR technology or face losing out
on Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments related to achieving
"meaningful use," according to a number of criteria. Being in a use-it-orlose-it situation, hospitals are getting on the wagon — if they've not
already — in force. A healthy 29.3% of hospitals are already at full
implementation. Just over a third — 36.3% — say they're "almost there."
The rest are just getting started (13.2%) or somewhere in the middle of
the process (22%).
Of hospitals at full implementation, the data are telling: just 3.8%
have had EMR for more than 10 years. The majority have been up running for less than a year (34.6%) or 1 to 4 years (38.5%), coinciding
with the lead up to EMR requirements.
The 53.9% of ASCs that have or are implementing EMR are further
along than their hospital counterparts, according to the survey. Nearly
three-fourths are fully implemented (47.3%) or "almost there" (25.7%).
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