EMR Survey Shows Slow Adoption

Despite all the benefits of Electronic Medical Records, most physicians have not yet taken the plunge because of one thing -- cost. These results were found in a recent survey by the New England Journal of Medicine, summarized here.

The survey reports that only one in 5 (20%) of our nation's doctors use an EMR, with the main reason given for the slow adoption being cost. Especially for small physician offices, the costs of implementation are proving a barrier to entry, at least for now.

The good news? For those doctors who have adopted an EMR, the results are positive, offering such things as increased efficiency and more space to be used for patient care.

The survey was supported by the Health Information Technology branch of the Department of Health and Human Services.

eContent Article recaps SSP

There's a nice article in EContent summarizing the recent Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting in Boston, including a mention of Silverchair CTO Jake Zarnegar, who kicked off a pre-meeting seminar entitled "Say What You Mean: How Semantic Tagging Makes Content More Discoverable, More Useful, and More Valuable."

The article is a good summary of events at the SSP meeting for those who did not get a chance to attend, or a good refresher for those who were there.