{"id":165469,"date":"2021-06-28T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.healthit.gov\/dashboard_stats\/physician-e-rx-through-ehr\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:10:56","slug":"physician-e-rx-through-ehr","status":"publish","type":"quick-stat","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/quickstats\/physician-e-rx-through-ehr\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician e-Rx through an EHR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-tertiary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Percent of Physicians e-Prescribing through an Electronic Health Record<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past five years, physician Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption has surged, reaching all corners of the country. The percentage of physicians e-Prescribing via an EHR has accelerated from 7 percent in December 2008 to 66 percent as of December 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/QS-Percent-Physicians-eRX-through-EHR.png?w=841\" alt=\"Physician e-Rx through an EHR\" class=\"wp-image-165585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/QS-Percent-Physicians-eRX-through-EHR.png 841w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/QS-Percent-Physicians-eRX-through-EHR.png?resize=300,145 300w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/QS-Percent-Physicians-eRX-through-EHR.png?resize=768,372 768w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/QS-Percent-Physicians-eRX-through-EHR.png?resize=310,150 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Percent of Physicians e-Prescribing through an Electronic Health Record In the past five years, physician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"topics":[133,55,126,60],"class_list":["post-165469","quick-stat","type-quick-stat","status-publish","hentry","topics-adoption","topics-care-continuum","topics-data","topics-pharmacy-pdmp"],"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>Physician e-Rx through an EHR - ONC Health IT Research &amp; 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