According to a study from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information , practices that have nurse practitioners ( NPs ) and physician assistants ( PAs ) , are 75 % more likely to adopt electronic health records ( EHRs ) than those without . The study looked at data from a large - scale national survey of office - based providers in 2013 . The results showed that of the EHRs adopted in 2013 , 80 % had a system that managed patient records , 80 % had a system that managed electronic prescriptions , and 76 % had a system that allowed the user to access patient lab results and X - rays . Additionally large practices and rural practices were more likely to hire NPs and PAs than smaller and urban practices .
According to a study from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, practices that have nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), are 75% more likely to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) than those without. The study looked at data from a large-scale national survey of office-based providers in 2013. The results showed that of the EHRs adopted in 2013, 80% had a system that managed patient notes, 77% had a system that managed electronic prescriptions, and 76% had a system that allowed the user to view patient lab results and X-rays. Additionally large practices and rural practices were more likely to hire NPs and PAs than smaller and urban practices.