{"id":165504,"date":"2021-06-28T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.healthit.gov\/dashboard_stats\/hospital-capability-electronically-query\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:07:19","slug":"hospital-capability-electronically-query","status":"publish","type":"quick-stat","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/quickstats\/hospital-capability-electronically-query\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Capability to Electronically Query"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-tertiary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e8604e682e09a5d53ba3a3fac965e29b wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Percent of U.S. Hospitals&#8217; with Capability to Electronically Query Patient Health Information from Outside Their Organization or System<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See Quick Stat,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/quickstats\/electronic-health-information-exchange-hospitals\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Electronic Health Information Exchange by Hospitals<\/a>, for statistics on hospitals\u2019 electronic query capabilities after 2014. The below Quick Stat is preserved for historical data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">As of 2014, 80 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals have the capability to electronically query patient health information from external sources, an over 30 percentage point increase from 2013. 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