Interoperability among hospitals treating populations that have been marginalized.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether differences in hospital interoperability are related to the extent to which hospitals treat groups that have been economically and socially marginalized.

Data sources and study setting

Data on 2393 non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States from the American Hospital Association Information Technology Supplement fielded in 2021, the 2019 Medicare Cost Report, and the 2019 Social Deprivation Index.

Study design

Cross-sectional analysis.

Data collection/extraction methods

We identified five proxy measures related to marginalization and assessed the relationship between those measures and the likelihood that hospitals engaged in all four domains of interoperable information exchange and participated in national interoperability

SUBMITTER: Everson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10315380 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature