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Percent of office-based physicians with selected features of EMR systems
(standard error)
| EMR system feature |
All Physicians |
Fully electronic |
Partially electronic |
| Patient demographics |
21.4 (1.6) |
91.5 (2.7) |
82.3 (3.8) |
| Physician clinical notes |
17.7 (1.6) |
82.2 (5.8) |
65.4 (4.9) |
| Lab results |
17.2 (1.6) |
80.9 (5.5) |
63.4 (5.0) |
| Nurse clinical notes |
14.0 (1.5) |
75.6 (6.1) |
46.0 (5.7) |
| CPOE |
13.4 (1.3) |
73.5 (5.1) |
40.4 (4.5) |
| Test orders |
12.7 (1.3) |
67.6 (5.2) |
40.2 (5.6) |
| Clinical reminders |
10.7 (1.1) |
57.9 (5.5) |
33.3 (4.3) |
| Public health reporting |
5.4 (0.9) |
34.2 (5.1) |
12.1 (2.8) |
Catharine W. Burt, Ed.D., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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