Accenture: 2015 survey report on doctors' use of medical IT technology

Source: aoya.com/xing Zhaopeng 2015-06-04 recently, Accenture conducted a questionnaire survey on 2619 doctors from six countries to assess their attitudes and acceptance of electronic health records and medical it The six countries are Australia (510 doctors), Brazil (504 doctors), Britain (502 doctors), Norway (302 doctors), Singapore (200 doctors) and the United States (601 doctors) This online global survey was conducted by ACNielsen from December 2014 to January 2015 (from December 2 to December 8, 2014 in the United States), mainly analyzing the country, Department, age and EMR usage 1、 Research methods 1 Accenture's partner, Accenture, and Nielsen consumer insights (formerly Harris Interactive) cooperated to complete the survey Nielsen has previously been responsible for many large-scale projects, including recruiting and screening doctors from trusted partners in various countries 2 The respondents include primary and secondary health care doctors and experts in Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Norway, Singapore and the United States; these doctors have registered for market research activities All investigations are conducted in an open and private environment Primary care physicians include general and family medicine practitioners, and secondary care physicians include specialists in surgery, neurology, endocrinology, rheumatology, cancer, and heart disease 3 How to select respondents to contact doctors by email, with a separate link in the email, click the link to fill in anonymously To maximize participation, two emails are sent to the doctor Considering the small differences in Singapore's culture, we interviewed doctors by phone and gave them technical help in real time through tablet computers 4 For the quality of the respondents, all doctors have been confirmed twice and re screened before participating in the survey 5 How to ensure the sample balance and representativeness across regions and fields? The timely quota update of mails can ensure that all subsequent mails are sent out In order to maintain the relative fairness and representativeness, we investigate and divide the objects according to regions, departments and fields 6 Whether the data are weighted? The data of the U.S region are weighted according to gender, region and specialty; the data of Australia, Brazil, Britain and Norway are weighted according to the age, gender and specialty of doctors in different countries, while the data of Singapore are not weighted 2、 Statistics of U.S doctor data 3 Survey results ● most American doctors say that they are more proficient in using electronic cases in clinical practice than they were two years ago ● most American doctors think that electronic medical record and electronic prescription are very helpful for them to provide medical services ● The number of doctors using routine functions is increasing year by year * this is unweighted data Question q705 (all respondents): how often do you use the following functions? This data is the results of doctors choosing frequent use options ● doctors believe that since 2012 Since, the number of patients using electronic medical records has also increased, and the number of online access to records and diagnosis and treatment results has increased significantly Q925 / q740 (all respondents): are the following functions effective for your patient's electronic information? They can ● U.S doctors believe that the updating of personal electronic medical records helps patients participate Most people also think that emr can help patients understand their health, communicate with patients, record accurately, and improve patients' satisfaction Q930 (all respondents): when you ask the patient to update their own medical records, do you think it will have a positive or negative impact on the following situations? ● many doctors think EMR of their own medical institution is very inconvenient and expect to improve ● the importance (importance) of optimizing treatment quality through medical it question q810: do you agree with question q725: which of the following do you think is very important in the process of optimizing treatment quality through medical it? For most American doctors, medical it means less time with patients ● EMR also has limitations Most doctors in the United States believe that EMR does not play an effective role in diagnosis decision-making, medical accidents and patients' medical expenses, because compared with the past, the situation has not improved, and reducing the rate of medical accidents is still the main benefit of EMR The impact of EMR and HIE * unweighted data question q805: when using EMR and HIE, you think their impact is mainly