Since the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT was established in April 2004 , it has had the main objective of making a secure network that stems across the whole of the US , which enables healthcare users to gain admission to medical records of anyone anywhere in the world 24/7 . In 2005 , the economic stimulus package distributed $ 25.9bn to encourage American physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records , however today , only 50 % of US physicians use even basic information . How is this likely to change in the future ? Three drivers will help adoption , a change in marketing from EHR providers to focus on smaller deals ; M&A in the healthcare sector , with EHR contracts from larger providers trickling down onto the smaller acquisition targets ; and improving healthcare platforms , giving doctors more access to more insightful information .
Since the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT was established in April 2004, it has had the main objective of making a secure network that stems across the whole of the US, which enables authorised users to gain admission to medical records of anyone anywhere in the country 24/7. In 2009, the economic stimulus package distributed $25.9bn to encourage American physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records, however today, only 50% of US physicians use even basic EHRs. How is this likely to change in the future? Three drivers will help adoption, a change in marketing from EHR vendors to focus on smaller deals; M&A in the healthcare sector, with EHR contracts from larger providers trickling down onto the smaller acquisition targets; and improving analytics platforms, giving doctors more access to more insightful information.