Alternative payment models and hospital engagement in health information exchange.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess whether hospital participation in alternative payment models (APMs) is associated with greater engagement in health information exchange (HIE) along 4 dimensions: volume of patients for whom information is exchanged, diversity of information types, breadth of partner types, and depth of technical approach.

Study design

Pooled, cross-sectional analysis of data on US hospitals from 2014 to 2015.

Methods

APM participation came from Leavitt Partners data, Medicare public use files, and the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey. We used Medicare data to measure HIE volume for 798 hospitals attesting to stage 2 Meaningful Use and the AHA Information Technology Supplement to measure HIE diversity, breadth, and depth for 1730 hospitals. We use

SUBMITTER: Lin SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6526138 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature