Figure 2: Paperless Medical Record

Percentage of information in the medical record that is paperless (average).

	All respondents	Most wired	Least wired
Electronic data from other systems available digitally	42%	58%	25%
Paper documents scanned and attached to the record	16%	18%	11%
Data manually entered and available in the record	22%	16%	26%
Paper records never available as part of the electronic patient record	20%	8%	39%

Source: 2006 Hospitals & Health Networks' Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study

This article 1st appeared in the July 2006 issue of HHN Magazine.

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