Adoption of Health Information Technologies by Area Socioeconomic Deprivation Among US Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Access to and quality of care vary substantially by area socioeconomic status. Expanding hospital health information technology (HIT) adoption may help reduce these disparities, given hospitals' central role in serving underserved populations.

Objective

To examine variations in US hospital adoption of telehealth and health information exchange (HIE) functionalities by hospital service area (HSA) socioeconomic deprivation.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study links data from the 2018-2023 American Hospital Association Annual Survey and Information Technology Survey with HSA-level area deprivation index. Nonfederal acute care hospitals with complete data on HIT outcomes, comprising 16 646 observations for the telehealth outcomes and 92

SUBMITTER: Yan AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12413650 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature