Hospitals' electronic access to information needed to treat COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand whether hospitals had electronic access to information needed to treat COVID-19 patients and identify factors contributing to differences in information availability.

Materials and methods

Using 2021 data from the American Hospital Association IT Supplement, we produced national estimates on the electronic availability of information needed to treat COVID-19 at US non-federal acute care hospitals (N = 1976) and assessed differences in information availability by hospital characteristics and engagement in interoperable exchange.

Results

In 2021, 38% of hospitals electronically received information needed to effectively treat COVID-19 patients. Information availability was significantly higher among higher-resourced hospitals and those eng

SUBMITTER: Richwine C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10684259 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature