What do Physicians think of new technology?

According to a survey by the American College of Physician Executives, physicians use new technology but don't like it. The Washington Post Business Journal published an article on the new trend of abandoning traditional paper record-keeping and input patient information in electronic form.

ACPE said it received comments that the technology lowers productivity, that the cost is prohibitive and that systems don’t do a good job of talking to one another. The survey findings were released a few weeks after approval of a federal $787 billion economic stimulus that includes $19 billion for health information technology, including $17 billion for incentives and penalties to encourage doctors and hospitals to abandon paper record-keeping and go high-tech beginning in 2011.

Read the full article on the Washington Business Journal at http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/03/09/daily31.html