Electronic health records in the UK and USA

Aziz Sheikh and colleagues' Comment (July 5, p 8) entitled "Adoption of electronic health records in UK hospitals: lessons from the USA" emphasises the greater success in adoption in the USA and stresses the top-down decision-making processes in the UK as the key issue. The article ma...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2014-09, Vol.384 (9947), p.954-954
Main Authors: Johnson, Owen A, Fraser, Hamish S F, Wyatt, Jeremy C, Walley, John D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Electronic Health Records
Hospital Administration
Hospitals
Hospitals - trends
Humans
Internal Medicine
Primary care
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Summary:Aziz Sheikh and colleagues' Comment (July 5, p 8) entitled "Adoption of electronic health records in UK hospitals: lessons from the USA" emphasises the greater success in adoption in the USA and stresses the top-down decision-making processes in the UK as the key issue. The article makes a number of important points, but does not fully acknowledge the major achievement of the UK in getting almost 100% coverage of electronic health records (EHR) in primary care 2 at a time when the US rate of adoption was 10-30%.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61626-3