We appreciate the work of Yoon et al. reporting EHR adoption in Korean hospitals . By adopting a questionnaire which has been implemented in US, their findings allowed them to claim that the adoption rate of electronic health record (EHR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) by Korean hospitals was higher than in US . It is truly a promising performance of Korean health IT, and perhaps inspiring for other countries in the region. Is it an early sign of health IT rise in Asia? (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).