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How should baseline adoption of EHR among hospitals be calculated (by total number of hospitals using EHRs, by hospital-based physicians, or by bed count)?

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How should baseline adoption of EHR among hospitals be calculated (by total number of hospitals using EHRs, by hospital-based physicians, or by bed count)?

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Communities should calculate baseline rates of hospital EHR adoption by using the number of hospital-based providers in the geographic community who are actively using EHR systems as the numerator and the total number of hospital-based providers in the geographic region as the denominator.