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Chances are, you agree with your patients on key requirements for information technology (IT) to increase the quality, safety, and cost-efficiency of care, as well as core privacy protections, according to results of a national survey released by the Markle Foundation. Agreement between physicians and patients was strongest on requirements to ensure that new federal health IT incentives will be well spent.
Chances are, you agree with your patients on key requirements for information technology (IT) to increase the quality, safety, and cost-efficiency of care, as well as core privacy protections, according to results of a national survey released by the Markle Foundation. Agreement between physicians and patients was strongest on requirements to ensure that new federal health IT incentives will be well spent.
Of the doctors surveyed, 94% said their patients sometimes forget or lose track of potentially important things they are told during office visits, and 34% of the physicians said they themselves at least sometimes forget or lose track of potentially important things that their patients tell them. Among the patient group, 30% perceived that their doctors forget or lose track of potentially important information at least sometimes.
Among the survey’s other findings:
Knowledge Networks (KN) conducted the surveys between August 10 and 26, 2010. The general population survey of 1,582 adults aged 18 or more years used KN’s KnowledgePanel, a probability-based panel of 50,000 individuals designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The survey of 779 physicians was conducted using KN’s Physicians Consulting Network, an invitation-only list of more than 45,000 practicing physicians.