10 Astounding Health Information Technology Facts

Facts About Medical Technology

The EMR/Digital Health revolution is to the present day healthcare industry what the Industrial Revolution was to 19^th Century Europe.  If steam power at once transformed cottage industries into huge mills and made possible the transit of a sea of people in very quick time (thus making colonization of entire continents possible), the Information Technology revolution in Healthcare will transform the very meaning of healthcare data.

Terms like connectivity and manipulation of data will reach such exalted heights along information superhighways, that the Industrial Revolution of bygone years would pale in comparison.  BillingParadise, a tech-savvy, gizmo-loving, responsible (no doubt a rare combination) medical billing vendor operating out of California has been aiding willing learners from the healthcare industry face these winds of change with aplomb.

10 Facts About Medical Technology:

1. 1. 1. Nearly 85% of American Physicians now use a Smart Phone.
      2. Nearly 60% of the Physicians own a tablet.
      3. Nearly half of tablet owners use it at the point of care.
      4. 2/3rds of Physicians use online video material to keep up-to-date in their chosen speciality.
      5. Physicians on average spend 12 hours online every week for professional purposes, the toppers being oncologists.
      6. More than half-a-billion dollars are spent every year on mobile health applications.
      7. Nearly $9 billion are spent on resources rating the healthcare industry.
      8. Nearly 1/3^rd of the physicians communicate with patients via email in between visits.
      9. Nearly 50% of patients are unaware if their healthcare records are available electronically.
      10. EMR adoption rate is lowest in single-physician practices at around 37%, while highest in hospitals having more than 25 physicians at 77%.

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