According to a 500-physician survey released by aetnahealth, which provides online business services to medical groups, and online physician community Sermo, while the overall favorable rating held at 77%, more detailed responses showed doctors were skeptical about digitized records.
The percentage of doctors saying that the financial benefits of electronic outweigh the costs fell to 64% from 71% last year. And the percentage saying the patient-care benefits justified the financial investment fell to 68% from 73%.
This year's survey also found doctors were less likely to agree that electronic records can help reduce medical errors, improve efficiency and lower costs. And a greater proportion of physicians said electronic records slow them down and don't achieve a measurable financial impact.
Meantime , a separate report out from PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that only 14% of the 1,000 consumers surveyed their medical records electronically, a third of whom shared their electronic records with their physicians.
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