{"id":2654,"date":"2015-02-19T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2015-02-19T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:12:07","slug":"progress-with-electronic-health-record-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/02\/19\/2654\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress With Electronic Health Record Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db187.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/niosh-science-blog\/files\/2014\/09\/ehr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 provides incentive payments to eligible hospitals and providers that demonstrate the meaningful use of a certified electronic health record (EHR) system.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db187.pdf\">report<\/a> describes the adoption of EHRs in hospital emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) from 2006 through 2011 using the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2011, 84% of hospital emergency departments used an electronic health record system.<\/li>\n<li>Adoption of a basic EHR system with a specific set of functionalities by EDs increased from 19% in 2007 to 54% in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>In 2011, 73% of hospital outpatient departments used an EHR system, up from 29% in 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Adoption of a basic EHR system with a specific set of functionalities by OPDs increased from 9% in 2007 to 57% in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>From 2007 through 2011, adoption of Stage 1 Meaningful Use objectives by EDs and OPDs increased.<\/li>\n<li>In 2011, 14% of EDs and 16% of OPDs had EHR technology able to support nine Stage 1 Meaningful Use objectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 provides incentive payments to eligible hospitals and providers that demonstrate the meaningful use of a certified electronic health record (EHR) system. A new\u00a0report describes the adoption of EHRs in hospital emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) from 2006 through 2011 using<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53740,63690],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654"}],"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=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}