OBJECTIVES To assess electronic health record (EHR) adoption and meaningful use
among US children's hospitals through 2011 and compare these outcomes with adult
hospitals and among subgroups of children's hospitals. We hypothesized that children's
hospitals would show progress since our initial evaluation of health information technology
(HIT) implementation in 2008. METHODS: We identified children's hospitals using the
membership directory of the Children's Hospital Association and analyzed their responses …