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 . IT sought to determine the relationship between employment of advanced practice providers and EHR adoption behaviors (Barker/Heisey Grove, American Journal of Managed Care, 12/4). 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 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 .