Regulatory Compliance and EHR Components
While most components of an EHR are not regulated by the agencies noted earlier, the work product of those systems is subject to audit by many regulators. This section focuses on physician documentation as an example of an area that is under growing scrutiny for its benefits and potential risks to healthcare providers. Of note, as of the first quarter of 2012, the percentage of hospitals that have achieved significant adoption of electronic documentation (as opposed to handwritten or transcribed) is only about 7.4 percent, according to HIMSS.15 The low adoption rate speaks to the difficulty in getting physicians to use electronic tools for progress notes and other documents. Comparatively, 30 percent have ...
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