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January 12, 2012 By News Staff
A new survey released this week announced that physicians across eight countries agree that health-care IT is improving health practices, however, some physicians, particularly those over the age of 50 or who don’t actively use health IT, do not see benefits in health IT practices.
The survey, released by global management consulting firm Accenture, gathered findings last year from more than 3,700 physicians — about 500 from each of the following countries: the U.S., Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany and Spain; as well as nearly 200 from Singapore.
The survey concluded that doctors agree on the top health IT benefits — improving clinical data, coordination of care and reducing medical errors — but that a generational divide exists among the different countries. Physicians over the age of 50 tend to not see all of the benefits of health IT such as electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchanges (HIE).
Physicians under the age of 50 tend to feel that health IT will create a positive impact including better health outcomes for patients, an increased speed of access to health services and fewer medical errors.
Although the U.S. has made strides to expand health IT, U.S. physicians rated the benefits of EMRs and HIEs lower than physicians in the other countries surveyed. The U.S. ranked lowest in the survey — 45 percent — for the number of doctors who think health-care IT will improve diagnostic decisions. Globally 61 percent of doctors feel that health-care IT will improve those decisions.
Only 45 percent of U.S. doctors reported that technology leads to improved health outcomes for patients. Among all participants in the survey, the average was 59 percent.
Forty-seven percent of U.S. doctors reported that health-care IT has assisted with improving the quality of treatment decisions — 14 percent lower than what doctors reported globally.
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It would be nice to see a survey for the patients feelings about health IT. I don't want it. I don't want my personal information kept on unsecured networks (if they can hack the Pentagon on a regular basis, what makes you think they can't mine a crummy health network?). As far as I'm concerned, the only thing health IT is good for is identity theft when your files are hacked or when a doctors office goes out of business and your files are left in boxes next to he dumpster and the computers w/un-wiped hard drives end up on the used market.