Report: EMRs Still Lacking

Despite a $27 billion grant from the stimulus bill to build more efficient electronic medical record systems, roughly 80 percent of doctors are still lacking even the most basic access to such records.

This finding was part of a report titled "Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward," which was released by The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on Wednesday. The group is calling on the Obama administration to develop a set of metrics within a year to measure progress toward to an operational, universal and national health IT infrastructure.

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