Health Information Technology

Recent reports show that public acceptance of electronic health records (EHR) is growing with as many as 63% of adults reporting  their belief that such records can significantly decrease the frequency of medical errors. 

Another 23% of adults report their physicians already maintain electronic records for them. HIDA research indicates physician EHR adoption rates hover at 28 percent with the highest implementation occurring in practices with three or more physicians where cost barriers have less impact.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009 and created $19 billion to spur health information technology adoption by physicians and hospitals.

Learn more about health IT's impact on the medical products supply chain and its role in advancing medical safety and efficiency with HIDA's Health IT information center. For more on HIDA's efforts on Health IT, contact Aaron Frazier at frazier@hida.org or (703) 838-6127.