If  EHR is about anything it’s about change.  So much of what exists today has to do with creating and moving documents.  Did you know?

• Of all documents handled each day in the average office,
  90% are merely shuffled
• Currently, 90% of corporate memory exists on paper
• There are over four trillion documents in the U.S. alone,
  growing at a rate of 22% per year
• Professionals spend 5-15% of their time reading information,
  but they spend up to 50% looking for it
• Corporate paper-based documents are growing at the rate of
  200% per year
• 19 copies are made from each paper document
• 22% of all documents are lost
• 7.5% of paper documents are lost completely
• 3% of the remainder get misfiled
• $20.00 is spent on labor to file a document
• $120.00 is spent on labor searching for the misfiled paper documents
• $250.00 is spent on labor to search for lost files

From Price Waterhouse