Physicians and electronic health records: a statewide survey.

Steven R. Simon; Rainu Kaushal; Paul D. Cleary; Chelsea A. Jenter; Lynn A. Volk; John Orav; Elisabeth Burdick; Eric G. Poon; David W. Bates

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Physicians and electronic health records: a statewide survey.

July 10, 2008

Simon SR, Kaushal R, Cleary PD, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(5):507-12.

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The investigators surveyed Massachusetts physicians and found great variability in the functions that electronic health record (EHR) systems provide as well as in how physicians use them.

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