The associations between query-based and directed health information exchange with potentially avoidable use of health care services.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the impact of two approaches (directed and query-based) to health information exchange (HIE) on potentially avoidable use of health care services.

Data sources/study setting

Data on ambulatory care providers' adoption of HIE were merged with Medicare fee-for-service claims from 2008 to 2014. Providers were from 13 counties in New York served by the Rochester Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO).

Study design

Linear regression models with provider and year fixed effects were used to estimate changes in the probability of utilization outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries attributed to providers adopting directed and/or query-based HIE compared with beneficiaries attributed to providers who had not adopted HIE.

Data collection

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SUBMITTER: Vest JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736925 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature