medical referrals

Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance August 8, 2016

As Healthcare Digitizes, Medical Referrals Fall Far Behind

By Jeremy Guttman – Entirely paper-based healthcare is going the way of the dodo bird. Since 2008, the number of office-based physicians who have adopted electronic healthcare records (EHRs) has doubled from 40% to over 80%. In fact, the number of physicians using EHRs has actually quadrupled in the past 12 years.