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Table EHR: Health Center Health Information Technology (HIT) Capabilities

National Data

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1,359 Awardees

Line Measures Number of Health Centers or Number of Patients % of Total
1. Does your health center currently have an electronic health record (EHR) system installed and in use, at a minimum for medical care, by December 31st?
a. Yes, installed at all service delivery sites and used by all providers 1,345 98.97%
b. Yes, but only installed at some service delivery sites or used by some providers 8 0.59%
c. No 6 0.44%
Total Health Centers with an EHR (Sum 1a + 1b) 1,353 99.56%
Total Health Centers reported (Sum 1a + 1b +1c) 1,359 100.00%
1a. Is your system certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Health IT Certification Program? 1,341 99.11%
1b. Health Center switched their current EHR from a previous system this year 69 5.10%
1c. Do you use more than one EHR, data collection, and/or data analytics system across your organization? Select "Yes" if the health center has more than one EHR that flows into one central health IT/EHR or practice management system. 585 43.24%
1c1. What is the reason your organization uses multiple EHR or data systems?
a. Additional EHR/data system(s) are used during transition from one primary EHR to another 41 7.01%
b. Additional EHR/data system(s) are specific to one service type (e.g., dental, behavioral health, care coordination) 306 52.31%
c. Additional EHR/data system(s) are used at specific service delivery sites with no plan to transition 20 3.42%
d. Additional EHR/data system(s) are used for analysis and reporting (such as for clinical quality measures or custom reporting) 336 57.44%
e. Other 69 11.79%
4. Which of the following key providers/health care settings does your health center electronically exchange clinical or patient information with? (Select all that apply.)
a. Hospitals/Emergency rooms 1,055 77.63%
b. Specialty providers 900 66.23%
c. Other primary care providers 736 54.16%
d. Labs or imaging 1,214 89.33%
e. Health information exchange (HIE) 1,063 78.22%
f. Community-based organizations/social service partners 316 23.25%
g. None of the above 23 1.69%
h. Others 119 8.76%
5. Does your health center engage patients through health IT in any of the following ways? (Select all that apply.)
a. Patient portals 1,287 94.70%
b. Kiosks 374 27.52%
c. Secure messaging between patient and provider 1,102 81.09%
d. Online or virtual scheduling 583 42.90%
e. Automated electronic outreach for care gap closure or preventive care reminders 797 58.65%
f. Application programming interface (API)-cased patient access to their health record through mHealth apps 281 20.68%
g. Others 81 5.96%
h. No, we DO NOT engage patients using health IT 30 2.21%
10. How does your health center utilize health IT and EHR data beyond direct patient care? (Select all that apply.)
a. Quality improvement 1,347 99.12%
b. Population health management 1,230 90.51%
c. Program evaluation 1,088 80.06%
d. Research 331 24.36%
e. Other 24 1.77%
f. We DO NOT utilize health IT or EHR data beyond direct patient care 4 0.29%
11. Does your health center collect data on individual patients' social risk factors, outside of the data countable in the UDS?
a. Yes 1,039 76.45%
b. No, but we are in planning stages to collect this information 271 19.94%
c. No, we are not planning to collect this information 49 3.61%
11a. How many health center patients were screened for social risk factors using a standardized screener during the calendar year? (Only respond to this if the response to Question 11 is "a. Yes.") 7,141,907 27.11%
12. Which standardized screener(s) for social risk factors, if any, did you use during the calendar year? (Select all that apply)
a. Accountable Health Communities Screening Tools 81 7.80%
b. Upstream Risks Screening Tool and Guide 13 1.25%
c. iHELLP 5 0.48%
d. Recommend Social and Behavioral Domains for EHRs 65 6.26%
e. Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients' Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) 750 72.18%
f. Well Child Care, Evaluation, Community Resources, Advocacy Referral, Education (WE CARE) 36 3.46%
g. WellRx 7 0.67%
h. Health Leads Screening Toolkit 22 2.12%
i. Other 217 20.89%
j. We DO NOT use a standardized screener 44 4.23%
12a. Please provide the total number of patients that screened positive for the following at any point during the calendar year.
a. Food insecurity 909,058 12.73%
b. Housing insecurity 715,950 10.02%
c. Financial strain 1,511,089 21.16%
d. Lack of transportation/access to public transportation 593,116 8.30%
12b. If you DO NOT use a standardized assessment to collect this information, please indicate why. (Select all that apply.)
a. Have not considered/unfamiliar with standardized screeners 37 2.72%
b. Lack of funding for addressing these unmet social needs of patients 122 8.98%
c. Lack of training for personnel to discuss these issues with patients 126 9.27%
d. Inability to include with patient intake and clinical workflow 103 7.58%
e. Not needed 32 2.35%
f. Other 81 5.96%
13. Does your health center integrate a statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) database into the health information systems, such as health information exchanges, EHRs, and/or pharmacy dispensing software (PDS) to streamline provider access to controlled substance prescriptions?
a. Yes 1,159 85.28%
b. No 173 12.73%
c. Not sure 27 1.99%

Footnotes

'-' Data cannot be calculated or has been suppressed for confidentiality purposes.

Cells that are shaded blue represent data that was not reported or null values.

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