Source: HIT Consultant
A collaborative effort between the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ASTP), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has yielded significant insights into the challenges and opportunities of health IT interoperability in primary care. By embedding HIT-related questions into the ABFM’s Continuous Certification Questionnaire (CCQ), the research team achieved a high response rate and valuable data on physician interoperability experiences. This approach contrasted sharply with the low response rates of traditional surveys like the National Electronic Health Records Survey (NEHRS) and the Physician Health Information Technology Survey (PHITS).