Disparities in Individuals’ Access and Use of Health IT in 2013. ONC Data Brief No. 26.

摘要

A number of national policies, initiatives and regulations have been implemented in the past year to increase all patients’ access to and use of their electronic health information. These include Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) patient electronic access rules, changes to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) to enable patients’ direct access to their test results from laboratories, and the expansion of the Blue Button Initiative. This brief presents national data from 2013, prior to the implementation of these efforts to expand online access and use of electronic health information, regarding individuals’ use of certain types of health IT. The brief also explores variation in individuals’ access and use of certain types of health IT by socio-demographic characteristics, geography and providers’ use of an electronic health record (EHR) to identify potential disparities.