Physicians double their time online?

Link: Physicians have doubled their time online since 2004 | Healthcare IT News.

Thought this information was interesting. Not only are physicians spending more time online, but they are also carrying and using mobile devices at the point of care. Mark Bard, head of Manhattan Research reports,

Nine in 10 U.S. physicians surveyed now agree that the Internet is essential to their practice, according to Bard's research. Seventy-five percent now go online daily for work, he said.

Two-thirds of doctors carry a smart phone – with some of that growth credited to the launch of the iPhone in 2007.

And they use it at the point of care," Bard said, "fifteeen to 20 times a day.

Manhattan Research forecasts that the physician adoption rate of smart phones will reach 81 percent by 2012.  

If that's the case, I wonder how EHR adoption will correlate with physician use of the Internet?

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