Healthcare Access

Clinical IT gaps persist between small and large physician practices

Published in Law and Health Weekly, December 9th, 2006

Physicians in smaller practices continue to lag well behind physicians in larger practices in reporting the availability of clinical information technology (IT) in their offices, according to a national study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).

The proportion of physicians reporting access to IT for each of five clinical activities increased across all practice settings between 2000-01 and 2004-05. However, adoption gaps between small and large practices persisted for two of the clinical activities-obtaining treatment guidelines and exchanging clinical data with other physicians-and widened for the other three-accessing patient notes,...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2006-12-09)

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