Patients say docs going digital

About 48 percent of patients in a recent survey said their doctor was using an electronic health record during their most recent visit to their physician. A little more than 30 percent of survey respondents said their doctor was still using paper charts and notes in a folder and 11.8 percent did not know or remember. The report, which was conducted by GfK Roper, a division of GfK Custom Research North America, for San Francisco EHR provider Practice Fusion, surveyed 1,000 adults nationwide. According to survey results higher income patients saw greater electronic health record use by their physicians (52.9 percent of respondents with incomes over $50,000 a year compared to 45.2 percent for those with incomes under $20,000 a year). The survey also found that more women (52.8 percent) than men (43.7 percent) reported EHR use by their doctors.