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About the National Data
Data
Baseline: 61.4 percent of adults aged 18 years and over reported that they were offered online access to their medical record by a health care provider or insurer in 2017
Target: 63.0 percent
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
From the 2017 HINTS Cycle 5 survey:
Numerator:
Have you ever been offered online access to your medical records by your….- Health care provider? (yes, no, don't know)
- Health insurer? (yes, no, don't know)
Methodology notes
The sample design for HINTS 5, Cycle 1 (2017) consisted of a single-mode mail survey, using the Next Birthday Method for respondent selection. The sample design for the HINTS 5, Cycle 1 (2017) survey consisted of two-stages. In the first stage, a stratified sample of addresses was selected from a file of residential addresses. In the second-stage, one adult was selected within each sampled household. The sampling frame consisted of a database of addresses used by Marketing Systems Group (MSG) to provide random samples addresses. Complete data were collected from 3,191 respondents. The response rate was 32%, and results were weighted to account for non-response and generate national estimates. The questions asked in the survey can be found in the HINTS 5, Cycle 1 (2017) Next Birthday Annotated Instrument.
History
1. Effect size h=0.2 was chosen to correspond with 20% improvement from a baseline of 50%.