David Pogue of NYTimes and CBS shares interview with
David Blumenthal, Nat’l Coordinator for Health IT
In September 2009 reporter David Pogue did a piece on CBS News Sunday Morning program on Electronic Health Records. On October 15, 2009, on the New York Times, Pogue shares the  interview he conducted with National Coordinator of Health IT David Blumenthal in preparation for that CBS News segement. Blumenthal spoke about the usage of electronic health records in other countries: Danes–virtually 100% of physicians use EHRS; Britain–100%; Australia–100%; Sweden–100%; Norway–100%.  “In many, many other Western countries, the electronic record is virtually ubiquitous.” A study Blumenthal did last year “found (in the US) that about 17 percent of physicians in 2008 had adopted an electronic health record, and about ten percent of hospitals.”

CBS News Sunday Morning Video Segment (Sept 13, 2009)
                    Transcript of Video Segment
New York Times Pogue Interviews Blumenthal