Actually, the adoption is still pretty low. It's about 20% now. It tends to be concentrated in the large integrated health care organizations such as Kaiser Permanente or Intermountain Healthcare. The small practices have been slow to adopt the electronic health records system. We've done some things at the government level. There was a certification process established in which software had to go through a rigorous certification process to ensure that it met certain provisions of quality reporting or clinical decision support. That was established a couple of years ago. It was brought in to give providers who were purchasing these systems confidence that it would meet their needs. In fact, we're still not nationwide, or even past the 20% adoption rate of electronic health records.
On March 23rd, 2009. See this statement in context.