Over 90 percent of all REC enrolled primary care providers are live on an EHR, with three-quarters demonstrating meaningful use (MU) of certified EHR technology (CEHRT). The majority of REC enrolled primary care providers are medical doctors or doctors…
Over 90 percent of Regional Extension Center (REC) enrolled providers are live on an EHR, with three-quarters of enrolled providers demonstrating meaningful use (MU) of certified EHR technology (CEHRT).
As of January 2016, 87 percent of REC enrolled Critical Access/Rural Hospitals (CAH/RH) are demonstrating meaningful use (MU) of certified EHR technology (CEHRT).
Regional Extension Centers (RECs) are working with over 80 percent of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) nationwide as well as supporting practices participating in additional delivery system reform and payment models. RECs are supporting over 80 percent…
Over 90 percent of REC enrolled physicians are live on an EHR, and over 75 percent have demonstrated meaningful use (MU) of certified EHR technology (CEHRT). General Practice/Family Practice and Internal Medicine physicians comprise over 70 percent of…
The data presented here reflect eligible hospital, Critical Access hospital, and eligible professional reporting on electronic exchange measures as defined for 2014, and indicate that significant progress must be made to reach a patient-centered, fully…
The CMS EHR Incentive Program provides incentive payments for eligible hospitals to adopt and meaningfully use certified health IT. Among the requirements to receive an incentive payment, participating hospitals must report on public health measures.…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT established the SHARP program to support innovative research and to address well-documented problems that impede the adoption and use of health IT. The SHARP program covers four subject areas:
Approximately 58k health care professionals attested to meaningful use of a certified EHR in 2011 through the Medicare EHR Incentive program. As of May 2014, 9 in 10 providers who attested to Meaningful Use in 2011 attested again in a following year. Of…
There are 392,800 providers eligible for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. As of May 2014, approximately 67% had attested to meaningful use of a certified EHR through Medicare. Half of the Medicare-eligible providers attested in 2011 or 2012, and the…
Approximately 7 out of 10 primary care physicians eligible for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program selected the Immunization Meaningful Use Menu measure without exclusion in 2013. 65 percent of 2013 first time attesters selected this measure without…
In December 2008, less than two months before the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, fewer than 7% of all U.S. medical doctors electronically prescribed (e-prescribe) patient medications through an…
Stage Two of the Meaningful Use program consists of 22 core and menu objectives. A subset of hospitals will be eligible to begin attesting to these Stage 2 objectives in 2014. In 2013, adoption rates for 20 of these objectives were over 60 percent.…
Stage 1 of the Meaningful Use program consists of 24 core and menu objectives. Hospitals began attesting to Stage 1 in 2011.
HITECH funded two distinct health IT workforce training programs: the University-Based Training Program and Community College Consortia Program. In total the two programs trained 21,437 students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico…
Hospitals have adopted and used Electronic Health Records (EHR) at a rapid rate across the country since the inception of the CMS EHR Incentive Program. 4,400 hospitals or 87 percent of all U.S. hospitals had received at least one incentive payment from…
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…
Hospitals that began the Meaningful Use program in 2011 were 6 percentage points more likely to select at least one public health measure without an exclusion by their third year of participation (2013), compared to their first year of participation (…