On behalf of Accenture, Harris Interactive conducted an online survey of 3,700 physicians across eight countries — Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States.
Key findings from the report, with regard to U.S. physicians, were:
- Respondents reported a 32 percent annual increase in the routine use of health IT capabilities.
- Sixty-two percent of respondents reported receiving their clinical results, such as lab tests, directly to their EHR system.
- Forty-five percent of respondents reported having adopted health IT for basic clinical tasks, such as receiving alerts while seeing patients.
- Fifty-seven percent of respondents reported regularly using electronic lab orders.
- The two IT capabilities that respondents reported using the most were: entering patient notes into electronic medical records (78 percent) and e-prescribing (65 percent).
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