U.S. News February 8, 2018
This year, we can expect a greater adoption and normalization of new technologies and a focus on security.
In what seems like ages ago, the advent of the fax machine promised to transform the integration of health providers across the spectrum of health care in the delivery of care. Today, of course, the medium has changed but the concept is alive and well, as the use of electronic health records (EMR) is now nearly ubiquitous. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the number of office-based physicians in the U.S. using EMR has nearly quadrupled in just a decade, rising from 24 percent in 2005 to 87 percent in 2015.
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