Open AccessA decade post-HITECH: Critical access hospitals have electronic health records but struggle to keep up with other advanced functions
Author(s) -
Nate C. Apathy,
Anders Holmgren,
Julia AdlerMilstein
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocab102
Subject(s) - analytics , electronic health record , digital divide , health information technology , quality (philosophy) , health care , medicine , business , family medicine , computer science , data science , political science , world wide web , information and communications technology , philosophy , epistemology , law
Despite broad electronic health record (EHR) adoption in U.S. hospitals, there is concern that an "advanced use" digital divide exists between critical access hospitals (CAHs) and non-CAHs. We measured EHR adoption and advanced use over time to analyzed changes in the divide.