NCHS QuickStats

Attachment I2 - NEHRS QuickStats
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

QuickStats
FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS

Percentage of Physicians Who Have Electronic Access to Patient Health
Information from Outside Their Medical Practice,*,† by State —
United States, 2015

DC

57.1%–76.4%
47.3%–57.0%
34.6%–47.2%
* Physicians were defined as having patient health information electronically available at the point of care if they
answered “often,”“sometimes,” or “rarely” to the question, “When treating patients seen by other providers outside
your medical organization, how often do you or your staff have clinical information from those outside encounters
electronically available at the point of care? Electronically available does not include scanned or PDF
documents.”  Overall, 50.3% of U.S. physicians reported having this type of electronic health information exchange. 
† A sample survey of office-based physicians.

In 2015, approximately half (50.3%) of the physicians in the United States had information from other providers outside of their
practice electronically available at the point of care. There was wide variation by state, ranging from 34.6% in Idaho to 76.4%
in South Dakota. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia were in the range with the lowest percentage of physicians with
electronic access to more comprehensive patient information (34.6%–47.2%). Another 16 states were in the middle range
(47.3%–57.0%). The 18 states with the highest percentage of physicians having such information electronically available were
in the top range (57.1%– 76.4%).
Source: National Electronic Health Records Survey (NEHRS), 2015. Survey data available through the NCHS Research Data Center at http://www.
cdc.gov/rdc/leftbrch/whatnew.htm.
Reported by: Eric W Jamoom, PhD, [email protected], 301-458-4798; Ninee Yang, PhD.

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US Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention