Certified EHR adoption 'almost universal' in acute care hospitals

The recent data on EHR adoption indicates almost all non-federal acute care hospitals are utilizing the certified EHR technology. In accordance to the National Coordinator for Health IT, 96% of hospitals had this technology as of the year 2015, which it deems as "almost universal."

Here are 3 more statistics on EHR adoption.

1. The 2015 amounts of certified EHR adoption are similar to those of the year 2014, demonstrating the adoption of this technology has hit a plateau.


2. Small, rural and critical access hospitals yet have lower amounts of EHR adoption than all hospitals.


3. Moreover, psychiatric and children's hospitals have primarily lower basic EHR adoption rates than general medicine hospitals, at 15% and 55%, respectively.