{"id":154,"date":"2010-01-26T11:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthit.hhs.gov\/blog\/onc\/?p=154"},"modified":"2025-07-16T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:09:28","slug":"new-ehr-adoption-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/insights-updates\/new-ehr-adoption-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"New EHR Adoption Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The CDC recently released its<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/emr_ehr\/emr_ehr.htm\"> latest report on the adoption of electronic health records\/electronic medical records (EHR\/EMR) amongst office-based physicians from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey<\/a>. As a physician who trained and initially practiced in a time where nearly every order, record, and prescription was paper-based, the results are striking to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final results for 2008 show about 16.7 percent of physicians reported having systems that met the criteria of a basic EHR\/EMR system, and about 4.4 percent reported that of a fully functional system. Preliminary results for 2009 show about 20.5 percent reported having systems that met the criteria of a basic system, and 6.3 percent reported that of a fully functional system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combined basic and fully functional statistics for the last 3 years are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2007 \u2013 17%,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 \u2013 21%,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preliminary 2009 \u2013 27%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest figures, especially the preliminary 2009 numbers, suggest that the pace of adoption of HIT is quickening. We expect that the federal government\u2019s health IT strategy will accelerate the pace even further by systematically addressing the obstacles physicians experience in adopting health IT (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-primary-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-primary-background-color has-background\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-how-the-us-federal-government-is-supporting-health-information-technology-use\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">How The US Federal Government is Supporting Health Information Technology Use<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Obama administration believes health information technology (HIT) is a critical component of efforts to improve the quality, efficiency, and value of care delivered to patients. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is leading the administration\u2019s efforts to support the thoughtful application of HIT. Cognizant of the numerous barriers that exist to making health IT work in real-world settings, the ONC is administering programs to systematically address these barriers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Obstacle<\/th><th>Intervention<\/th><th>Funds<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Financial Resources<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Medicare and Medicaid Incentive Program<\/strong>: incentive payments to \u201cmeaningful users\u201d who use health information technology to improve value and efficiency of care delivered to patients<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Technical Assistance<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Regional Extension Centers<\/strong>: Up to 70 regional extension centers (REC) will help providers through the process of selecting and implementing electronic health records<\/td><td>$643 Million<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-primary-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-primary-background-color has-background\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The vision of a health care system that uses information technology to improve the value of services to patients is inching closer towards reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ONC is committed to making the transition to electronic health records successful for every physician and hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you will share the experiences, challenges, and success stories that belie these encouraging statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. \u2013 National Coordinator for Health Information Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>* The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is an annual nationally representative survey of patient visits to office-based physicians that collects information on use of EMR\/EHR.NAMCS provides the only source of methodologically sound, comparable, longitudinal data to track EHR adoption by American physicians, and as such, is an invaluable tool.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC recently released its latest report on the adoption of electronic health records\/electronic medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","_blog_show_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"archived-category":[],"featured":[],"topics":[408,442,439,425,440],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights-updates","topics-care-continuum","topics-health-it-basics","topics-historical-programs","topics-hit-policy","topics-meaningful-use-macra"],"acf":{"blog_authors":[{"blog_author_profiles":"198443"}],"hp_news_hide":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.8.1) - 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