RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Communication Gaps Persist Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians JF The Annals of Family Medicine JO Ann Fam Med FD American Academy of Family Physicians SP 343 OP 347 DO 10.1370/afm.2781 VO 20 IS 4 A1 Timmins, Lori A1 Kern, Lisa M. A1 O’Malley, Ann S. A1 Urato, Carol A1 Ghosh, Arkadipta A1 Rich, Eugene YR 2022 UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/4/343.abstract AB A survey conducted with data from 2008 found that physicians often do not communicate with each other at the time of referral or after consultation. Communication between physicians might have improved since then, with the dissemination of electronic health records (EHRs), but this is not known. We used 2019 survey data to measure primary care physicians’ perceptions of communication at the time of referral and after consultation. We found that large gaps in communication persist. The similarity between these survey results suggests that despite the dissemination of EHRs, physicians still do not consistently communicate with each other about the patients they share.