Health Affairs July 17, 2024
Emily Decker, Emily Eckert, Julia Skapik

For 20 years, the United States health care system has been on a journey to achieve universal adoption of electronic health record (EHR) technology and, eventually, interoperability between systems. A foundational aspect of patient care that has been grossly overlooked to date in conversations relating to EHR technology and interoperability is contraception.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named contraception one of our nation’s 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century. Despite the personal and public health benefits of contraception, access to this critical health service is under serious threat. In the US today, more than 19 million women live in a contraceptive desert, meaning they lack reasonable access to a health care provider in their county...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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