Data Briefs Provides health IT adoption and use statistics derived from surveys and administrative data and in-depth analysis of health IT policies and programs.

The 2020 ONC Cures Act Final Rule implements provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act to require secure access to patient health information through application programming interfaces (APIs), with the goal that more patients would be able to access…

Over the past decade, a number of federal health IT policies (1) have sought to advance the interoperable exchange of electronic health information (EHI) between health care providers. In response to these federal initiatives, health care…

Approximately 80 percent of the U.S. population and more than 90 percent of the nation’s physicians reside in urban areas (1, 2). While cities are central to many cultural, economic, and transportation activities, these densely populated and…

More than 20 million Americans suffer from a substance use disorder (SUD) each year. For these individuals, treatment is designed to help stop or reduce harmful substance misuse, improve health and social function, and manage risk for relapse.…

Achieving nationwide interoperability is a stated objective of the federal government. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) ( 1) and the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 (2) call for specific actions to improve the…

EPCS is beneficial because it can help providers integrate prescription drug information into electronic health records (EHRs) more directly, which can improve patient safety and reduce diversion and fraud. This brief uses data from the 2017…

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) declares it a national objective to achieve widespread interoperability through the use of certified electronic health records (EHR) and requires the Department of Health and Human…

With widespread adoption of EHRs, policy is now shifting towards the use of EHR data. EHR data can improve patient care by giving providers access to evidence based tools that assist with decision making and facilitating clinical practice by…

The use of EPCS technology can help health care providers integrate prescription information into electronic health records (EHRs) more directly, while improving patient safety and reducing diversion and fraud. In October 2018, Congress passed the…

Understanding the methods used by health care organizations to enable exchange and their capacity to do so is important. It provides context for how and where policy development and investments can streamline the complexity of exchange and address…

Monitoring the state of interoperability is important to assess current policies and identify ways to advance the electronic exchange of health information. In this data brief, we describe the progress hospitals made in four interoperability domains…

This brief describes the state of health IT use among HHAs and SNFs in 2017. Specifically, it presents key measures on electronic health record (EHR) adoption and interoperability from nationally representative surveys of SNFs and HHAs. The data…

Online access to medical records, such as through patient portals, enable patients and caregivers to access their health information. Mobile health apps and devices connected to a providers' electronic health record system using open…

This data brief presents key measures on EHR adoption and interoperability from a 2016 nationally representative sample of skilled nursing facilities (SNF). It also describes the variation in EHR adoption and interoperability by SNF characteristics…

This ONC Data Brief describes variation in interoperability across different types of hospitals, rates of exchanging information between hospitals and other types of providers, and mechanisms hospitals used to exchange information. .

Over 1 in 4 hospitals can electronically find, send, receive, and use key clinical information - an important metric for tracking interoperability. This brief presents the most recent estimates on the state of interoperable exchange activity among U…

Preserving patient trust in the privacy and security of health information is a critical element in achieving an interoperable health IT infrastructure. As adoption of certified health IT and electronic exchange of health information grows across…

Research demonstrates that providing patients with access to their clinical information empowers them to increase patient engagement and improve health outcomes. Hospitals, which play a critical role in coordinating patient care with a variety of…