{"id":7205,"date":"2022-12-09T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:51:46","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-office-based-physicians-using-telemedicine-technology-by-specialty-united-states-2019-and-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/12\/09\/7205\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Office-Based Physicians Using Telemedicine Technology, by Specialty \u2014 United States, 2019 and 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7149a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/wwwdev.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7149a6-F.gif?_=37237\" width=\"438\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2019 to 2021, the use of telemedicine technology increased for office-based physicians from 15.4% to 85.9%. In both 2019 and 2021, the use of telemedicine technology was higher among primary care physicians and medical specialty physicians than it was among surgical specialty physicians. In 2021, 91.4% of primary care physicians, 87.2% of medical specialty physicians, and 74.8% of surgical specialty physicians used telemedicine technology.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Electronic Health Records Surveys, 2019 and 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nehrs\/about.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nehrs\/about.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7149a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7149a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2019 to 2021, the use of telemedicine technology increased for office-based physicians from 15.4% to 85.9%. In both 2019 and 2021, the use of telemedicine technology was higher among primary care physicians and medical specialty physicians than it was among surgical specialty physicians. In 2021, 91.4% of primary care physicians, 87.2% of medical specialty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53740,63686,53752,63786,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}