Kolodner looks for 50 percent increase in doctors’ EHR use

The prospect for EHR adoption is looking up, says psychiatrist Robert Kolodner, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Besides predicting a 50 percent rise in EHR use by doctors this year, Kolodner believes half of all doctors may be using EHRs as soon as late 2009. One reason for his optimism—all three of the remaining presidential candidates have endorsed IT as a strategy for fixing the healthcare system.

“We really do think this is a banner year coming up,” Kolodner told an audience at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society conference.

He also predicted that the Nationwide Health Information Network would begin to become operational this year and that vendors of EHR systems would begin incorporating newly adopted federal standards into their products.

Kolodner looks for 50 percent increase in doctors’ EHR use [Via Government Health IT]

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