Electronic Health Record Adoption and Interoperability among U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities and Home Health Agencies in 2017

This brief describes the state of health IT use among HHAs and SNFs in 2017. Specifically, it presents key measures on electronic health record (EHR) adoption and interoperability from nationally representative surveys of SNFs and HHAs. The data brief also describes variation in interoperability by method of electronic exchange and examines the extent to which these facilities have information electronically available at the point of care. Finally, this data brief reports on the use of mobile and telehealth technologies among HHAs. .