In short, given the increasing rate of EHR adoption in several
developed countries, the nature of the usage and impacts of such
systems needs to be evaluated to ensure they are enabling family
physicians and their medical practices to realize expected performance
improvements. In this line of thought, this article presents
the results of a survey of Canadian family physicians on their
EHR usage behaviors and their perceptions of the performance
improvements obtained from their EHRsystem both for themselves
and for their medical practices. It must be noted here that most
Canadian medical practices tend to be privately owned solo/group
practices or interdisciplinary community-based clinics, using standalone
EHR systems from small or medium size vendors that are not
well integrated with other health information technologies