Question

After reading the abstract of this article, what single phrase would you choose to describe this article (content of the article) ? Why would you choose this word?

List of single phrases to choose from:

• WOW
• SURPRISING
• INTERESTING
• UNLIKELY
• IMPOSSIBLE
• ABOUT TIME
• WASTED EFFORT
• NO REAL CHANGE
• INNOVATIVE
• NO WAY
• SO WHAT

Article:

The Financial And Nonfinancial Costs Of Implementing Electronic Health Records In Primary Care Practices Neil S. Fleming, Steven D. Culler, Russell McCorkle, Edmund R. Becker, and David J. Ballard AFFILIATIONS v PUBLISHED: MARCH 2011 Free Access https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff. 2010.0768 E SECTIONS ( VIEW PDF @ PERMISSIONS SHARE TOOLS ABSTRACT The incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand the “meaningful use" of electronic health record systems have many health care professionals searching for information about the cost and staff resources that such systems require. We report the cost of implementing an electronic health record system in twenty-six primary care practices in a physician network in north Texas, taking into account hardware and software costs, as well as the time and effort invested in implementation. For an average five-physician practice, implementation cost an estimated $162,000, with $85,500 in maintenance expenses during the first year. We also estimate that the Health Texas network implementation team and the practice implementation team needed 611 hours, on average, to prepare for and implement the electronic health record system, and that “end users"-physicians, other clinical staff, and nonclinical staff-needed 134 hours per physician, on average, to prepare for use of the record system in clinical encounters.

Answer 1

Interesting

Why? All Health Care Employees come in contact with many EHR systems according to the health care facilities. But actual efforts , cost of personnel, systems and the equipment were actually unknown to many of them.Back end working efforts are really interesting.