The Reason for Slow EHR Adoption

From the Baltimore Sun:

"One key is incentives. For an individual doctor or a small practice, switching from paper to digital costs between $40,000 and $60,000. For most doctors, this is a lot of money: The average physician pulls in about $150,000 a year. And the savings from going digital mostly accrue to the insurance companies, Merritt said.

'There's no incentive to adopt the technology,' Merritt says. 'No one helps them offset these costs.'"

Yup.