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Quick StatsHospital Capability to Electronically Query
Percent of U.S. Hospitals’ with Capability to Electronically Query Patient Health Information from Outside Their Organization or System
See Quick Stat, Electronic Health Information Exchange by Hospitals, for statistics on hospitals’ electronic query capabilities after 2014. The below Quick Stat is preserved for historical data.
As of 2014, 80 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals have the capability to electronically query patient health information from external sources, an over 30 percentage point increase from 2013. In 2014, 48 percent of hospitals routinely queried patient health information from outside their organization or system.
| Electronic Query Capability | Percent of Hospitals with Capability | ||
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
| Hospitals Able To Electronically Query | 38% | 51% | 80% |
| Hospitals Routinely Electronically Query | — | — | 48% |
| Hospitals NOT Able To Electronically Query | 54% | 43% | 12% |
| Hospital Capability Unknown | 8% | 6% | 8% |
- Data reflects the responses of 60% of all non-federal acute care hospitals.
- Data calculated from answers to survey question: “Are providers at your hospital able to query electronically for a patient’s health information (e.g. medications outside encounters) from sources outside of your organization or hospital system?”