SERMO, a global social network for physicians, asked 3,086 physicians from 26 countries to answer one question: Has an EMR/EHR outage or malfunction ever jeopardized the health or safety of a patient?
Here’s how the United States stacks up against eight other countries with more than 50 physician respondents.
1. United States: 55 percent
2. Canada: 46 percent
3. United Kingdom: 46 percent
4. Global average: 46 percent
5. France: 39 percent
6. Mexico: 37 percent
7. Venezuela: 37 percent
8. Spain: 33 percent
9. Italy: 29 percent
10. Germany: 9 percent
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