On average, nearly half — 48.1 percent — of office-based physicians utilized an EHR system that met the criteria for a basic system, according to a National Center for Health Statistics data brief released earlier this year.
The data brief analyzed EHR use by office-based physicians for the year 2013. The following 10 states had the highest percentage of physicians who used basic EHR systems, ranked from highest to lowest.
- North Dakota — 82.9 percent
- Minnesota — 75.5 percent
- Massachusetts — 70.6 percent
- Wisconsin — 67.9 percent
- Iowa — 65.5 percent
- Utah — 65.5 percent
- Oregon — 64.9 percent
- Washington — 60.6 percent
- Illinois — 58.7 percent
- South Dakota — 58.1 percent
The following 10 states had the lowest percentage of physicians using basic EHR systems, ranked lowest to highest:
- New Jersey — 21.1 percent
- Connecticut — 30.1 percent
- Washington, D.C. — 31 percent
- Nevada — 33 percent
- Oklahoma — 36.9 percent
- West Virginia — 36.9 percent
- Vermont — 37 percent
- Maryland — 37.1 percent
- Wyoming — 37.1 percent
- Colorado — 38.8 percent