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form of EHR doubled between 2008 and 2011, this percentage still is only
55 percent (National Center for Health Statistics, 2012). Reports from State
Health Information Exchanges also show limited progress in information
sharing among hospitals and physician practices, but the information fre-
quently is limited to demographics and pharmaceutical information.
is limited data collection and sharing is apparent in the Beacon
Community Program grantees (Oce of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology, 2012b). e federal government funded
them to provide prototypes of electronic medical record ...