Speaking at the May 6 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, ONC’s Jennifer King detailed some findings from an American Hospital Association survey conducted in late 2013. Only 10 percent reported the capability to let patients view, download and transmit their data. And although this is not a Stage 2 requirement, she noted, only 13 percent report the capability to accept patient-generated data.
Sixty percent of hospitals recently surveyed said they are ready to meet 13 or more of the 16 meaningful use Stage 2 core objectives, yet only 6 percent had all 16 capabilities in late 2013.
Speaking at the May 6 Health IT Policy Committee meeting, Jennifer King, research and evaluation branch chief for the Office of the National Coordinator, detailed some findings from an American Hospital Association survey conducted in late 2013. She noted that EHR adoption among hospitals has more than doubled in the last two years and increased more than five-fold since 2008.
