A whopping 96 percent of U.S. hospitals now have electronic health records (EHRs) certified to federal Meaningful Use standards. That’s up from 72 percent in 2011, the first year of the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced the statistic at its annual meeting in Washington Tuesday morning.
That number may be a tad misleading, however, because possession of an EHR system means the hospital has a signed contract with a vendor. It doesn’t mean the system is in place.
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