Locate an article from the internet that deals with health c

Locate an article from the internet that deals with health care statistics. Summarize the article and provide information on why the statistics are being generated and who the users of healthcare statistics are according to the article.

Solution

Article: More Hospitals Extend Online Patient Access to EHRs (Site: HealthPopuli)

The article describes that there is a clear increase in hospitals usage and access to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The article identifies and tracks the EHR usage, and why there is a change in the behavior. The article tries to seek the incentives those are creating this need and pushing the patient behavior, including technology, finance and conveniece aspects.

The statistics provide insight and provides fact checking through the requests and corroborates the changing behabior through examples.

The user of these statistics are: