Becker's Healthcare January 9, 2026
The ASC industry is in a transitional period as healthcare moves increasingly into digital formats for managing health records and data — but some ASCs are still catching up to this trend.
According to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s July 2025 survey, 76% of ASCs now use an EHR, up from 55% in 2021. The shift reflects growing consolidation, partnerships with health systems and payer pressure to provide better data.
Yet nearly 1 in 4 ASCs still rely on paper, and two-thirds of those plan to remain paper-based until regulations force a change. Cost is the top barrier to EHR adoption, with 49% citing expense as the reason for staying analog.
Jeanine Watson, MSN, senior manager of the ambulatory...
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