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The percent of hospitals that enable patients to electronically view, download, and transmit their health information grew almost 7-fold between 2013 and 2015. However, Critical Access, medium, and small hospitals lag behind large hospitals in possessing electronic view, download, and transmit capabilities for their patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ONC Data Brief describes trends in hospitals capability to engage patients with their health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"topics":[133,126,90],"class_list":["post-165158","data-brief","type-data-brief","status-publish","hentry","topics-adoption","topics-data","topics-patient-access-health-records"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electronic Capabilities for Patient Engagement among U.S. Non-Federal Acute Care Hospitals: 2012-2015 - ONC Health IT Research &amp; 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