Is duration of hospital participation in meaningful use associated with value in Medicare?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

"Meaningful Use" (MU) of electronic health records (EHRs) is a measure used by Medicare to determine whether hospitals are comprehensively using electronic tools. Whether hospitals' engagement in value-based initiatives such as MU is associated with value-defined as high quality and low costs-is unknown. Our objectives were to describe hospital participation in MU, and determine whether duration of participation is associated with value.

Materials and methods

We linked national Medicare data with MU and other hospital-level and market data. We analyzed bivariate relationships to characterize duration of participation. We estimated inverse probability-weighted multilevel logistic regressions to evaluate whether duration of participation was associated with higher l

SUBMITTER: Brice YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6951993 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature