Rural EMR adoption rates overtake those in urban areas

• Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 399 - 408
• Main Author: Whitacre, Brian E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.03.2015
• Subjects: Diffusion of Innovation; Electronic Health Records - utilization; Health Care Surveys; Logistic Models; Nonlinear Dynamics; Practice Management, Medical - statistics & numerical data; Research and Applications; Rural Health Services - statistics & numerical data; United States; Urban Health Services - statistics & numerical data; United States; Electronic Medical Records; decomposition; logistic regression; EMR adoption; rural

Objective To assess rural-urban differences in electronic medical record (EMR) adoption among office-based physician practices in the United States. Methods Survey data on over 270 000 office-based physician sites (representing over 1 280 000 physicians) in the United States from 2012 was used to as...