Medscape August 25, 2022
Only 18% of primary care physicians (PCPs) and 12% of all doctors exchanged data electronically with public health agencies in 2019, according to a new report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
However, the percentage of PCPs who exchanged data electronically with public health agencies was five percentage points higher in 2019 than in 2018, the report noted. Moreover, it is likely that the frequency of electronic reporting to these agencies has increased since 2019 because of COVID-19.
“The [electronic reporting] has absolutely improved,” Keith Kelley, chief operating officer of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), told Medscape Medical News. He attributed this change to the pandemic.
The survey data in the report doesn’t show...