ONC Dashboard on Health IT Adoption

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released a dashboard showing various adoption statistics.  Lots of fun to play with, I recommend you give it a try.  

Of note:

• Provider adoption is anywhere from 12 to 40 %.   Rural providers have adopted quicker than small practices in general.  
• Hospital adoption of Basic EHR (I will explain this in a future post) went from around 20% in 2010 to 35% in 2011.  
• About 93% of community pharmacies are in the Surescripts network for ePrescribing.  

Data based on Feb 2012 ONC Brief.  

With ONC clarifying layers of certified EHR technology and requiring implementation by the end of 2014, how much of a jump will we have in Basic EHR adoption in 2012?   

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