Vendor of choice and the effectiveness of policies to promote health information exchange.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As more hospitals adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR), focus has shifted to how these records can be used to improve patient care. One barrier to this improvement is limited information exchange between providers. In this work we examine the role of EHR vendors, hypothesizing that vendors strategically control the exchange of clinical care summaries. Their strategy may involve the creation of networks that easily exchange information between providers with the same vendor but frustrate exchange between providers with different vendors, even as both Federal and State policies attempt to incentivize exchange through a common format.

Methods

Using data from the 2013 American Hospital Association's Information Technology Supplement, we examine the relationship betwe

SUBMITTER: Castillo AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5987601 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature