Medscape July 18, 2022
Nearly two thirds of office-based physicians are engaged in some form of electronic health information exchange (HIE), and three quarters of those who exchange data say they have experienced improvements in quality of care, practice efficiency, and patient safety as a result, according to a new study from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
The data analysis from an annual survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also showed that the percentage of physicians electronically finding or querying patient information reached 49% in 2019, a 40% increase from 2015.
But other domains of interoperability did not grow much, if at all.
“The progress of interoperability is still incremental,” commented Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, professor...
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