Almost 50% Of Hospitals Use Information Received Electronically From Outside Their Health System

In 2018, about 46% of hospitals reported engaging in all four domains of interoperability (sending, receiving, querying and integrating data from external sources). The percentage of hospitals nationally engaging in each of these four domains varied as shown below:

About 89% reported sending data electronically.
About 78% reported receiving data electronically.
About 65% reported electronically querying to find data.
About 62% reported the ability to integrate care records from sources outside their health system.

Approximately 76% of hospitals reported using more than one electronic method to send health information, while 63% reported using more than one electronic method to receive . . .