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Indicator sources
Name of source
Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care
Short description
National survey of 2758 physicians, which represented a response rate of 62%. Using a definition for electronic health records that was based on expert consensus, the survey determined the proportion of physicians who were using such records in an office setting and the relationship between adoption and the characteristics of individual physicians and their practices.
Author / executing agency
Institute for Health Policy et al.
Type of data gathering
(Most recent) Year of publication
2008
Continuous data gathering
Years of available data
2008
Geographic Coverage
Actor
- General Practitioner
- Specialist
- Health professional (generic)
Activity
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prescribing
- Laboratory analysis
- ICT use (generic)
- ICT availability
- IT related process
- Attitudes towards ICT
- Assessment of ICT impacts
- Administration
- eHealth/IT investment
- Patient data storage (generic)
Application
- Electronic health/medical record (EHR/EMR)
- Computerized provider/physician/prescriber order entry (CPOE) systems
- Decision Support Systems/Software (DSS)
- Picture archiving and communication system (PACS)
- ePrescribing
Indicators
Media Library
Representativeness / population
National survey of 2758 physicians
Further information, Reference
Catherine M. DesRoches et. al., Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care - A National Survey of Physicians, N Engl J Med 359;1, 2008.
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