|Slideshows|May 28, 2020

Electronic prescribing of controlled substances: Are office-based physicians using it?

A new report from ONC answers this question

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology looked at data from the 2017 National Electronic Health Records Survey, a nationally representative survey of office-based physicians, to understand rates of electronically prescribing controlled substances.Here are the key findings.

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