Lower electronic health record adoption and interoperability in rural versus urban physician participants: a cross-sectional analysis from the CMS quality payment program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 introduced the Meaningful Use program to incentivize the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) in the U.S. This study investigates the disparities in EHR adoption and interoperability between rural and urban physicians in the context of federal programs like the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 and the 21st Century Cures Act.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using the 2021 Quality Payment Program Experience Report Public Use File to compare EHR adoption and Promoting Interoperability scores (PISs) between urban and rural physician participants. Data were linked with the Certified Health IT Product List to assess certified EHR adoption and inter

SUBMITTER: Anzalone AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755824 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature