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Recent Poll Results: Are you electronically exchanging Continuity of Care Documents (CCD) today?

January 11th, 2010 by Jeff Zinger Print Friendly

Recently, a poll was posted here asking, “Are you electronically exchanging Continuity of Care Documents (CCD) today?” The most popular answer showcased the steady migration towards electronic records occurring across the healthcare landscape with 57% of respondents selecting, “We have plans to exchange CCDs electronically.” More telling, however, is that 78% indicated they either plan to, or are already exchanging CCDs electronically.
Below are the complete results:

  • We have plans to exchange CCDs electronically. – 57%
  • No. We do not send or receive CCDs electronically today. – 21%
  • Yes. We do send and receive CCDs electronically today. – 14%
  • We only receive CCDs electronically today. – 7%

We welcome your suggestions for future poll topics. Please email us your ideas.

Related posts:

  1. HL7 Continuity of Care Document Quick Start Guide
  2. What Is the HL7 Continuity of Care Document?
  3. Continuity of Care Document for Clinical Data Exchange
  4. What is the Relationship Between the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and HL7 2.X Messaging?
  5. CCD Usage
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  • http://www.macadamian.com/insight/healthcare Didier Thizy

    Wow, great poll. I’ve seen a lot of comments on newsgroups about how CCD in particular can be quite onerous to implement, for dubious value (i.e., if the specific systems I’m going to integrate with don’t use CCD, what incentive do I have to support CCD?).

    Since CCD arguably only has value once a lot of systems get on board supporting it, this becomes a “tragedy of the commons” – each product vendor says “you implement CCD first, then I promise I will” :)

    Within the respondents of this poll, have you noticed any trends – ie. those that do support CCD are typically so-and-so type of institution and those that do not are typically this other kind of institution. This kind of analysis would definitely help us understand better who are the early adopters and what is driving them that doesn’t work for the others.

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