Hospitals' use of electronic health records data: 2015-2017
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- ONC data brief
- Author(s):
- Parasrampuria, Sonal, author Henry, Jawanna, author
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, April 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Electronic Health Records -- trends Health Information Interoperability -- trends Hospitals -- trends United States United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 helped to advance the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Today, more than 95 percent of hospitals possess an EHR. With widespread adoption of EHRs, policy is now shifting towards the use of EHR data. EHR data can improve patient care by giving providers access to evidence based tools that assist with decision making and facilitating clinical practice by automating and streamlining the provider workflow. This brief uses data from the American Hospital Association Information Technology Survey to describe trends in the use of EHR data among non-federal acute care hospitals from 2015 to 2017. We defined use of EHR data as a set of ten measures that describe hospital processes for leveraging data within their EHR to inform clinical practice (see appendix for survey details). The data brief also presents variation in the use of this data by hospital characteristics and over time.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (13 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918332987406676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918332987406676