According to a new Black Book survey, 97 percent of physicians and 80 percent of hospitals are “meaningfully unconnected,” failing to exchange information regularly through a sustainable health information exchange. The survey found that 67 percent of all primary care physicians surveyed had a “basic EHR,” which includes patient history and demographics; a problem or diagnosis list; physician notes; medications; allergies; electronic prescribing; and the ability to view laboratory and imaging results electronically. That is up from 15 percent in 2008.
Breaking down physician demographics by practice size, urban or rural setting, and region of the U.S., the only group in which more than 25 percent of physicians did not have an EHR system was rural physicians (69 percent).
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