Hospitals Use of Electronic Health Records Data, 2015-2017
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Hospitals Use of Electronic Health Records Data, 2015-2017
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The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 helped to advance the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Today, more than 95 percent of hospitals possess an EHR (1). With widespread adoption of EHRs, policy is now shifting towards the use of EHR data. EHR data can improve patient care by giving providers access to evidence based tools that assist with decision making and facilitating clinical practice by automating and streamlining the provider workflow (2). This brief uses data from the American Hospital Association Information Technology Survey to describe trends in the use of EHR data among non-federal acute care hospitals from 2015 to 2017. We defined use of EHR data as a set of ten measures that describe hospital processes for leveraging data within their EHR to inform clinical practice (see appendix for survey details). The data brief also presents variation in the use of this data by hospital characteristics and over time.
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- Highlights
- In 2017, 94 percent of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.
- Hospitals commonly used their EHR data to support quality improvement (82 percent), monitor patient safety (81 percent), and measure organization performance (77 percent).
- In 2017, hospitals increased their use of EHR data to perform 7 out of 10 processes, on average.
- Small, rural, and critical access hospitals had among the lowest rates of EHR data use to inform clinical practice.
- Hospitals’ use of their EHR data varies by EHR developer.
- Hospitals that engaged in the four domains of interoperability used their EHR data in substantially more ways than hospitals that could not engage in the four domains of interoperability.
- Hospitals participating in CMS Innovation Models had significantly higher rates of EHR data use compared to hospitals that did not participate in these programs.
- Summary
- Definitions
- Data Availability
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix
References
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- Henry J, Pylypchuk Y, Searcy T, Patel V. Adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems among US Non-Federal Acute Care Hospitals: 2008-2015. Washington DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy; No. 35 Health IT Data Brief. 2016 - PubMed
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- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Benefits of EHRs. 2017 Oct; https://www.healthit.gov/topic/health-it-and-health-information-exchange...
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- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Innovation Models. 2017 Oct; https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/models
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- Pylypchuk Y, Johnson C, Henry J, Ciricean D. Variation in Interoperability among U. Washington DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy; No. 42 Health IT Data Brief. 2018 - PubMed
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