New Data Available on How Physicians Experience Interoperability
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Contributed by: Sarah Richardson
Summary
Since 2021, the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ASTP) and the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) have collaborated to develop survey questions to understand family physicians' experiences with health IT in primary care. Through a cooperative agreement involving UCSF, these surveys informed policy decisions and research. In 2022 and 2023, ABFM included these questions in their Continuous Certification Questionnaire, achieving a high response rate by embedding them in the recertification process. Despite differing respondent demographics between various surveys, trends in health IT usage and challenges were notably consistent. A key difference was the higher documentation burden reported by ABFM respondents. The survey questions were refined over the cooperative agreement's third year, with new data currently under analysis and available for request from ABFM.
