{"id":2263,"date":"2014-05-20T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:50:19","slug":"trends-in-electronic-health-record-system-use-among-office-based-physicians-united-states-2007-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/05\/20\/2263\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Electronic Health Record System Use Among Office-based Physicians: United States, 2007\u20132012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has a new <a title=\"Trends in Electronic Health Record System Use Among Office-based Physicians: United States, 2007\u20132012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr075.pdf\">report <\/a>that presents trends in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by office-based physicians during 2007\u20132012.\u00a0 Rates of adoption are compared by selected physician and practice characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2012, 71.8% of office-based physicians reported using any type of EHR system, up from 34.8% in 2007.<\/li>\n<li>In 2012, 39.6% of physicians had an EHR system with features meeting the criteria of a basic system, up from 11.8% in 2007; 23.5% of office-based physicians had an EHR system with features meeting the criteria of a fully functional system in 2012, up from 3.8% in 2007.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007, a wide gap existed in use of any type of EHR system between physicians in practices with 11 or more physicians (74.3%) compared with physicians in smaller practices (20.6% among solo practitioners); the gap, however, narrowed during 2007\u20132012.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007, no significant gap was observed in adoption of a fully functional system between primary care (4.7%) and nonprimary care physicians (2.8%); the gap, however, widened over time (27.9% compared with 19.4% in 2012).<\/li>\n<li>The difference in adoption of a fully functional system between physicians in practices with 11 or more physicians compared with solo practitioners was 10.4 percentage points in 2007; the gap widened to 30.6 percentage points in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has a new report that presents trends in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by office-based physicians during 2007\u20132012.\u00a0 Rates of adoption are compared by selected physician and practice characteristics. Key Findings from the Report: In 2012, 71.8% of office-based physicians reported using any type of EHR system, up from 34.8% in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}