Costs of moving to e-health records slows adoption

08.06.2006

Morrow acknowledged that the costs -- as much as $25,000 per physician -- can be difficult to absorb. But, he said, doctors should move ahead with automating paper-based records on their own or face the potential of government mandates in the future.

"When the time came to start billing electronically for services, doctors didn't go into that asking how much money they would make off of it," he said. "EMRs are the cost of doing business."