Fierce Health Technology September 29, 2020
The Trump administration plans to work with the American Board of Family Medicine to study how health IT tools can be improved for doctors.
The HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) awarded a cooperative agreement to the American Board of Family Medicine to measure the use and potential burdens experienced by office-based physicians.
The evaluation will provide ONC with national-level data on how physicians use health IT, including key measures on interoperability and burden, the agency said.
The effort builds on prior research that found, in 2017, approximately 80% of office-based physicians used a certified electronic health record (EHR), but only one in ten of those physicians reported that they were able to electronically send,...
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