EHR Intelligence August 19, 2022
Over 70 percent of hospitals experienced at least one major challenge with electronic public health reporting, according to 2019 ONC data.
The healthcare industry must focus on increasing electronic health information exchange (HIE) to ensure the availability of timely data for public health efforts, according to an ONC data brief.
Survey data from 2019 found that more than 70 percent of hospitals experienced at least one major challenge with electronic public health reporting.
Additionally, less than one in five primary care physicians—and about a quarter of pediatric and internal medicine primary care physicians—reported electronically sharing data with public health agencies.