Medscape January 29, 2016
The percentage of office-based physicians who had a certified electronic health record (EHR) system increased to 74.1% in 2014 from 67.5% in 2013, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published online January 27.
The report did not specify which set of certification criteria these EHRs met. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT allowed physicians to use EHRs that met either 2011 or 2014 certification standards to attest to meaningful use in 2014. In 2015, however, they had to use a 2014 edition-certified EHR.
Up to now, NCHS has been using a different yardstick to measure physician EHR adoption. Last year, the...
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