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Health Information Technology in the United States: Progress and Challenges Ahead, 2014

Description
Discusses the progress of hospitals and physicians on the adoption of electronic health records (EHR), improving patient education and quality, and challenges ahead. Provides data specific to Medicare Disproportionate-Share Hospitals' and Critical Access Hospitals' (CAHs) adoption rates. Exhibit 19 demonstrates stages of EHR adoption by hospital characteristics, including for urban and rural areas.
Author(s)
Catherine M. DesRoches, Michael W. Painter, Ashish K. Jha
Date
08/2014
Type
Document
Organizations
Harvard School of Public Health, Mathematica Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Michigan, School of Information
Tagged as
Critical Access Hospitals · Health information technology · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data

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