There are a total of 754 acute care hospitals that have not fully implemented a base of major
clinical ancillary department applications (e.g., laboratory, pharmacy, radiology) to qualify for
stage 1 designation. This represents approximately 19 percent of the hospitals in the database.
Most hospitals occupy the stage 1 and stage 2 levels of the EMR Adoption Model. The combined
percentage of hospitals in these two stages is approximately 71 percent.