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Study findings on health and society are outlined in reports from University of Texas

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, May 1st, 2009

"This study examines the availability of electronic prescription and the utilization of e-prescribing by physicians in the US. Nationally representative data from the 2004-2005 Community Tracking Study Physician Survey were used to identify which subgroups of physicians have access to e-prescribing technology and which subgroups are using this technology more or less intensively," scientists in the United States report.

"Exhaustive Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID) was employed for statistical data segmentation. Results indicate that the rapidly increasing adoption of electronic prescription is diminished by relatively low physician utilization....

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