[{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"region","data_field":"Region","data_description":"The region name for the data. This includes all 50 states and the District of Columbia.","additional_information":""},{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"region_code","data_field":"Region Code","data_description":"The abbreviation code for the region name. This includes all 50 states and the District of Columbia.","additional_information":""},{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"period","data_field":"Time Period","data_description":"Time period for the data. The first four digits correspond to the year of the data, and any other digits refer to the month of the data, beginning with \"01\"/January and ending with \"12\"/December.","additional_information":""},{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"county_name","data_field":"County Name","data_description":"The county name corresponding to the specific line of data.","additional_information":"This field pertains only to the county-level e-Prescribing data sets."},{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"state_fips","data_field":"State Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)","data_description":"The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code for the region. This is a double-digit number; if any appear as a single digit, the field should be re-coded so that all single digits have a \"0\". For example, if the state FIPS appears as \"1\", it should be re-coded to appear as \"01\". This only applies for codes, \"1\" through \"9\".","additional_information":"This field pertains only to the county-level e-Prescribing data sets."},{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"county_fips","data_field":"County Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)","data_description":"The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code for the county name. This is a three-digit number; if any appear as anything less than three digits, the field should be re-coded. For example, if the county FIPS appears as \"1\", it should be re-coded to appear as \"001\", and if it appears as \"11\", it should be re-coded to appear as \"011\".","additional_information":"This field pertains only to the county-level e-Prescribing data sets."},{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"fips","data_field":"Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)","data_description":"The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code for the region and county. Simply, the state FIPS and county FIPS are combined to create a single processing standard. This unique code applies to a unique county in a unique state. This is a five-digit number; if any appear as a four digit number, the field should be re-coded. For example, if the FIPS appears as \"1001\", it should be re-coded to appear as \"01001\".","additional_information":"This field pertains only to the county-level e-Prescribing data sets."},{"data":"electronic-prescribing-adoption-use-data-documentation-county","data_variable":"pct_phys_e_Rx_ehr","data_field":"Percent of Physicians Actively Using an EHR to e-Prescribe via the Surescripts Network","data_description":"The proportion of all medical doctors that actively e-prescribe. The denominators for this measure are taken from the SK&A Office-based Provider database. County-level counts of MDs are used to approximate the percentage of all MDs that actively e-Prescribe.","additional_information":"This field pertains only to the county-level e-Prescribing data sets."}]