A decade post-HITECH: Critical access hospitals have electronic health records but struggle to keep up with other advanced functions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite broad electronic health record (EHR) adoption in U.S. hospitals, there is concern that an "advanced use" digital divide exists between critical access hospitals (CAHs) and non-CAHs. We measured EHR adoption and advanced use over time to analyzed changes in the divide.

Materials and methods

We used 2008 to 2018 American Hospital Association Information Technology survey data to update national EHR adoption statistics. We stratified EHR adoption by CAH status and measured advanced use for both patient engagement (PE) and clinical data analytics (CDA) domains. We used a linear probability regression for each domain with year-CAH interactions to measure temporal changes in the relationship between CAH status and advanced use.

Results

In 2018, 98.3% of ho

SUBMITTER: Apathy NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363800 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature