{"id":165732,"date":"2025-09-22T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.healthit.gov\/dashboard_stats\/hospital-routine-electronic-notification\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:38:38","slug":"hospital-routine-electronic-notification","status":"publish","type":"quick-stat","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/data\/quickstats\/hospital-routine-electronic-notification\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Routine Electronic Notification"},"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 U.S. Hospitals that Routinely Electronically Notify Patient&#8217;s Primary Care Provider upon Emergency Room Entry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, 3 in 4 non-federal acute care hospitals routinely electronically notified a patient&#8217;s primary care provider upon his or her entry to the hospital&#8217;s emergency department \u2013 a nearly two-fold increase since 2012. Seventy percent of all hospitals routinely electronically notified primary care providers inside the hospital&#8217;s system; whereas, 59 percent of all hospitals routinely electronically notify physicians outside the hospital&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<canvas id=\"surveyChart\" aria-label=\"Line chart titled \u201cPercent of U.S. Hospitals that Routinely Electronically Notify Patient&apos;s Primary Care Provider upon Emergency Room Entry.\u201d The y-axis shows percentages from 0% to 100%. The x-axis lists years from 2012 to 2022. The first line shows the portion of hospitals that routinely notify primary care providers of their patients\u2019 emergency room entry and displays the following data points: 39% in 2012, 48% in 2013, 56% in 2014, 59% in 2015, 63% in 2016, 70% in 2019, 72% in 2021, and 76% in 2022. The second line shows the percentage of hospitals that routinely notify both inside and outside the system and displays the following data points: 16% in 2012, 21% in 2013, 27% in 2014, 29% in 2015, 29% in 2016, 31% in 2019, 43% in 2021, and 53% in 2022. The next line displays the portion of hospitals that routinely notify inside the system only and shows 21% in 2012, 24% in 2013, 27% in 2014, 28% in 2015, 31% in 2016, 27% in 2019, 17% in 2021, and 17% in 2022. The final line shows the percentage of hospitals that routinely notify outside of the system only and shows 2% in 2012, 3% in 2013, 2% in 2014, 2% in 2015, 2% in 2016, 11% in 2019, 12% in 2021, and 6% in 2022.\" role=\"img\"><\/canvas>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"colgroup\" colspan=\"8\">Percent of Hospitals with Capability<\/th><\/tr><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\" scope=\"col\">Routine Electronic Notification<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2012<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2013<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2014<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2015<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2016<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2019<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2021<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" scope=\"col\">2022<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\" scope=\"row\">Routinely Notifies<\/th><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">39%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">48%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">56%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">59%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">63%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">70%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">72%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">76%<\/td><\/tr><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\" scope=\"row\">Routinely Notifies Inside and Outside System<\/th><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">16%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">21%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">27%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">29%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">29%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">31%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">43%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">53%<\/td><\/tr><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\" scope=\"row\">Routinely Notifies Only Inside System<\/th><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">21%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">24%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">27%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">28%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">31%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">27%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">17%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">17%<\/td><\/tr><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\" scope=\"row\">Routinely Notifies Only Outside System<\/th><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">11%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">12%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">6%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Percent of U.S. Hospitals that Routinely Electronically Notify Patient&#8217;s Primary Care Provider upon Emergency Room [&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":[126,65],"class_list":["post-165732","quick-stat","type-quick-stat","status-publish","hentry","topics-data","topics-interoperability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hospital Routine Electronic Notification - ONC Health IT Research &amp; 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