More Than 100k Primary Care Providers Adopting EHRs

Approximately 100,000 U.S. primary care providers, representing more than one-third of total primary care physicians, are working with their regional extension centers to adopt electronic health records, according to an HHS news release.

Half of the providers transitioning to EHRs are in small group practices or consortia of small group practices. Of the other half, 18 percent are in community health centers, 11 percent are in public hospitals and 21 percent are in other underserved settings such as critical access hospitals, rural health clinics and practices in medically underserved areas.

The nation's 62 RECs assist primary care providers in meeting meaningful use through the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. So far they have helped over half of the targeted 1,776 critical access and rural hospitals, according to HHS.

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