HealthLeaders Media February 5, 2015
More than half of physicians regularly get patient information necessary to coordinate patient care from sources other than EHRs, a study finds.
Despite a federal mandate to adopt electronic health records systems, many physicians remain woefully behind in how they receive patient data, researchers say.
Published in the journal Medical Care, the study is the result of a collaboration by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Office of the National Coordinator forHealth Information Technology, and the National Center for Health Statistics. Researchers examined three sources of patient health information necessary for proper care coordination:
• Patient history and reason for referral to outside provider
• Consultation with an outside provider
• Hospital discharge information
The study found that...
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