Electronic Medical Record Use in Nursing Homes

1. Purpose

The objective of this survey is to understand the use of health information technology (HIT) systems, specifically Electronic Medical Records (EMR)*, in nursing homes in New York State and to identify barriers to further implementation. The Department of Health (Department) is especially interested in the capacity for the State’s nursing homes to collect, share, and analyze clinical information electronically.

The information collected from this survey will be used to inform policy and decision-making regarding HIT in New York’s long term care settings.

We request that the Administrator, or an equivalent title with decision making authority over and familiarity with IT matters, complete this survey. Please submit only one survey for each facility.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation, and appreciate your time in completing the survey. Please submit your survey by no later then October 4, 2019.

Any questions related to the survey should be sent to:

ALTCteam@health.ny.gov

* For the purposes of this survey, EMR means any type of electronic system that captures and stores a resident’s health and medical information and is interchangeable with the Electronic Health Record.

Question Title

* 1. Please provide the following information regarding your facility:

Name of Facility

Address of Facility

Facility PFI

Hospital System Affiliation
*Note that Affiliation means a user of or directly related to a hospital EMR system

Total Number of Beds

Percentage of patients in Sub-Acute Beds

Percentage of patients in Long-Term Care (Custodial) Beds

Ownership Type: (for-profit, not-for-profit, government)

Baseline Questions

Question Title

* 2. Please select the option that most accurately describes the status of EMR implementation at your facility?

Fully implemented and operational

Partially implemented (i.e., you are able to enter some resident health and medical data, but not every resident is enrolled, or the system is operational, but the staff has not been trained or EMR integrated in workflow, etc.)

Selected an EMR, signed vendor contract, but EMR is not operational

Plan to select and implement in the future

Do not have current plans to implement

Other (please specify)