Table 3: Mean total annual payments from all government sources before and after implementation of EMRs for family physicians (FPs) enrolled in EMRALD* and for all other general practitioners/family physicians (GP/FPs) in Ontario during the same period

	EMRALD FPs				All other GP/FPs
EMR start	No. who started using EMRs	Mean annual payment in pre-EMR yr†	Mean annual payment in post-EMR yr‡	% change	No. of physicians	Mean annual payment in same yr as pre-EMR yr†	No. of physicians	Mean annual payment in same yr as post-EMR yr‡	% change
2005	18	191 342	351 251	83.6	9 865	183 570	10 046	243 427	32.6
2006	38	200 836	256 882	27.9	10 129	214 025	10 149	248 381	16.1
2007	8	196 967	210 036	6.6	10 046	243 427	10 352	273 962	12.5
2008	12	257 110	347 938	35.3	10 149	248 381	10 666	285 366	14.9
2009	26	271 144	275 190	1.5	10 352	273 962	10 872	279 978	2.2
Total weighted mean		223 399	285 240	27.7		233 100		266 679	14.4

Note: EMR = electronic medical record, EMRALD = Electronic Medical Record Administrative Data Linked Database. *Family physicians who started using EMR software and were contributing data to this database. †The pre-EMR year is the full fiscal year before, but not including, the EMR start date. ‡The post-EMR year is the first full fiscal year after the year containing the EMR start date.