Four Years Later: The Impact Of The HITECH Act On EHR Implementations

Since 2009, Software Advice has gathered data on tens of thousands of practices looking to purchase medical software. We’ve tapped into that data to determine:

• What percentage of today’s electronic health record (EHR) buyers are replacing paper charts vs. replacing existing software; and,
• The primary reasons these practices are looking to buy a new EHR in 2013.

To achieve an effective comparison, we gathered data from two separate time periods within three years: Q1 2010, immediately after the HITECH Act was first signed into law, and Q1 2013. A detailed description of our methodology is provided later in the report.