Opt-in consent policies: potential barriers to hospital health information exchange.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To (1) assess whether hospitals in states requiring explicit patient consent ("opt-in") for health information exchange (HIE) are more likely to report regulatory barriers to HIE and (2) analyze whether these policies correlate with hospital volume of HIE.

Study design

Cross-sectional analysis of US nonfederal acute care hospitals in 2016.

Methods

We combined legal scholarship surveying HIE-relevant state laws with the American Hospital Association Annual Information Technology Supplement for regulatory barriers and hospital characteristics. Data from CMS reports for hospitals attesting to Meaningful Use stage 2 (MU2; renamed "Promoting Interoperability" in 2018) in 2016 captured hospital HIE volume. We used multivariate logistic regression and linear regre

SUBMITTER: Apathy NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7262872 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature