Helaine E. Resnick|Majd Alwan
Use of health information technology in home health and hospice agencies: United States, 2007
Leading Age|Georgetown University|Leading Age
objective report provides updated estimates use electronic medical records emrs us home health hospice hhh agencies describes utilization emr functionalities presents novel data telemedicine point care documentation pocd setting design nationally representative crosssectional survey us hhh agencies conducted 2007 measurements data agency characteristics current use emr systems well use telemedicine pocd collected results 2007 43 us hhh agencies reported use emr system patient demographics 40 clinical notes 34 commonly used emr functions among us hhh agencies 20 agencies emr systems health information sharing functionality half used telemedicine used 21 hhh agencies 87 offering home health services among home health agencies using telemedicine greater 90 used telephone monitoring twothirds used nonvideo monitoring nearly 29 hhh agencies reported using electronic pocd systems often outcome assessment information set oasis data capture 79 relative forprofit hhh agencies nonprofit agencies used considerably emr 70 vs 28 p0001 pocd 63 vs 9 p0001 conclusions 2000 2007 33 increase use emr among hhh agencies us 2007 use emr pocd technologies nonprofit agencies significantly higher forprofit ones finally hhh agencies generally tended use available emr functionalities including health information sharing