According to an Accenture survey, more doctors are proficient at using electronic medical records than they were two years ago, but less believe they have improved treatment decisions, reduced errors or improved health outcomes, reports The Financial.
"Despite the rapid uptake of electronic medical records, the industry is facing the reality that digital records alone are not sufficient to driving better, more efficient care in the long term," Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD, head of Accenture's global health business, said to The Financial. "The findings underscore the importance of adopting both technology and new care processes, as some leading health systems have already done, while ensuring that existing shortcomings in patient care are not further magnified by digitalization. The U.S. healthcare market has made remarkable progress in EMR adoption, and we believe that as the technology evolves, so too will the benefits to physicians and patient care."
