The study included eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States. The findings result from more than 160 interviews with health leaders and a survey of 3,700 physicians.
Key Findings concerning the U.S. include:
- Approximately 62 percent of specialists are using electronic tools to improve administrative efficiency, compared to a 49 percent global average.
- Fifty-nine percent of U.S. physicians enter patient notes electronically during and after appointments, the same as their international colleagues in the study.
- Fifty-four percent of U.S. primary physicians, the most of any country surveyed, are using e-prescribing to send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically, compared to 20 percent on average for the other countries.
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