A recent data brief from the Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), based on information from the 2015 edition of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) annual survey IT supplement, reveals that year over year, not that much has changed regarding hospitals’ ability to exchange patient medical records with all other healthcare providers.
For some perspective, let’s go back to last August when AHA and ONC produced the same annual survey, this time based on 2014 hospital data. That report found that while nearly all hospitals said they have the infrastructure to exchange data, just one-quarter of them nationwide are finding, sending, receiving and using data electronically.
