2010 Physician Health IT Survey Summary Report
In early 2009, RI was the first state in the nation to report individual-level measures of HIT adoption for all licensed physicians. In early 2010 the RI Department of Health (HEALTH) administered the second annual physician HIT Survey. This survey went to to 3,224 physicians licensed in RI, in active practice, and located in RI, Connecticut, or Massachusetts as part of the Health Care Quality Performance (HCQP) Program. The response rate was 57.8% (n=1,862).
The following table compares 2010 results with 2009:
| Measure | Survey Respondents | All Physicians | ||||
| 2009 | 2010 | Change | 2009 | 2010 | Change | |
| 1. Physicians with electronic medical records (EMRs) |
67.6% | 74.1% | 6.5% | 39.3% | 42.8% | 3.5% |
| 2. Physicians with qualified EMRs | 12.5% | 18.5% | 6.0% | 7.3% | 10.7% | 3.4% |
| 3. Basic EMR functionality | 63.6% | 65.4% | 1.8% | -- | -- | -- |
| 4. Advanced EMR functionality use | 44.1% | 46.6% |
2.5% |
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| 5. Physicians who are e-presribing | 41.2% | 49.3% | 8.1% | 23.9% | 28.5% | 4.6% |
Most Utilized Office-Based EHRs in Rhode Island
DocEHRtalk.org analyzed the 2010 HCQP survey data to compile the most utilized EHR products in Rhode Island. Below is the list of the top 10 in alphabetical order.
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Allscripts
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athenahealth
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Cerner
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eClinicalWorks
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GE
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Ingenix
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Meditech
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Nextgen
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Polaris
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Sage
For more information on the HCQP visit www.health.ri.gov/chic/performance. Note that this data excludes Practice Settings listed as Hospital.
2008-2010 National Center for Health Statistics Survey
According to a 2008-2010 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) survey of health information technology adoption in physician practices:
- The percentage of office-based physicians who have adopted a basic EHR is 24.9% (21% in RI), an increase of almost 50% from 2008 to 2010.
- Growth in EHR adoption is strongest among primary care physicians: 29.6% have adopted at least a basic EHR; in RI, the estimated adoption rate is 34%.
- The percentage of office-based physicians who plan to apply for EHR incentive payments is 41% (47% in RI). (Of those physicians, 79%—or 32.4% of all office-based physicians—plan to participate during Stage 1 of the programs; only 14% said they are not planning to apply for incentive payments.)