An empirical analysis of the financial benefits of health information exchange in emergency departments.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the impact of health information exchange (HIE) on reducing laboratory tests and radiology examinations performed in an emergency department (ED).

Materials and methods

The study was conducted in an ED setting in Western New York over a period of 2 months. The care of the patients in the treatment group included an HIE query for every encounter, while the care of other patients in the control group did not include such queries. A group of medical liaisons were hired to query the medical history of patients from an HIE and provide it to the ED clinicians. Negative binomial regression was used to analyze the effects of HIE queries on the number of performed laboratory tests and radiology examinations. The log files of the HIE system since 1 year before the

SUBMITTER: Yaraghi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7784316 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature