About 60 percent of acute-care hospitals in the U.S. have at least a basic electronic health record, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The report includes the following statistics about EHR adoption:
- At the end of 2013, 25.5 percent of hospitals had a comprehensive EHR, defined as a system capable of incorporating physician and nurse notes, advanced directives, radiologic and diagnostic-test images, consultant reports, computerized physician order entry and decision support software.
- Large hospitals are more likely to have a comprehensive EHR system (38.9 percent have one) compared with medium-sized hospitals (27.5 percent) and small hospitals (21.1 percent).
- Major teaching hospitals are more likely to have a comprehensive EHR (41.4 percent) compared with minor teaching (30.5 percent) or nonteaching (23 percent) hospitals.
- Nonprofit hospitals are also more likely to have a comprehensive EHR (31.5 percent) compared with public hospitals (17.2 percent) and for-profit hospitals (14.3 percent).
- The percent of eligible hospitals that have received a meaningful use payment is on the rise. In 2011, 45.4 percent of hospitals received one — 4.5 percent from the Medicare incentive program, 29.9 from the Medicaid program and 11 percent from both. In 2012, 63.8 percent of hospitals received a payment — 10.9 percent from the Medicare program, 16.7 percent from Medicaid and 36.2 percent from both.
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