As of 2013 it has been reported that only 44 percent of hospitals in the U.S. are reporting to have implemented some type of EHR (electronic health record) system. The numbers continue to grow each quarter as more hospital make the change from paper based record systems to electronic health record systems. The US health care system is in the midst of an enormous change in the way health care providers and hospitals document, monitor, and share information about health and care delivery. Part of this transition involves a wholesale, but currently uneven, shift from paper-based records to electronic health record (EHR) systems.
Out of the 44% that have adopted EHR systems, 42.2 percent meet all of the federal stage one “meaningful-use” criteria and only 5.1 percent report being able to meet the next requirements of the stage 2 criteria. Large urban hospitals continue to outpace rural and nonteaching hospitals in adopting EHR systems. The increase in adoption overall suggests that the positive and negative financial incentives currently in place across the US health care system are working as intended. To increase the number of hospitals implementing EHR technology a push must be made to automate the smaller and rural hospitals in the U.S.
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