Rural hospitals struggle to adopt advanced EHR functions

Modern Healthcare August 25, 2017
Rachel Z. Arndt

If the rate of electronic health record adoption continues at its current pace, all hospitals in the country should have adopted EHRs in the next four years, according to a new study.

Researchers found that 80.5% of hospitals surveyed had at least a basic EHR in place.

But when it comes to advanced EHR functions, the picture isn’t so rosy, with critical-access hospitals in particular struggling to adopt features beyond basic EHR functionality. According to data from the American Hospital Association Information Technology Supplement survey from 2008 to 2015, just over a third of hospitals surveyed had at least eight of 10 EHR functions that involve using data for performance management, and under half had at least eight of 10...

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