Primary care EHR use and costs [Charts]

A look at primary care physician electronic health record (EHR) use, costs and Meaningful Use readiness, using data from the 85th annual Medical Economics 2013 Exclusive Continuing Study, which collected responses from physicians about their professional life.

For more information about primary care EHR use, read our story about physicians who refuse to use an EHR system.

Other 2013 results related to salaries, productivity and malpractice:

Flat, declining salaries inflate physician worries over payments, red tape

Physician practice owners take a 6% pay cut

What primary care physicians earn: A five-year review (chart)

Primary care physician earnings by gender (chart)

Primary care physician earnings by community (chart)

Primary care physician earnings by region (chart)

Malpractice premium trends (chart)

Competition driving malpractice premiums down

Productivity in primary care is geared for a revival