Impact of the 2015 Health Information Technology Certification Edition on Interoperability among Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Most nonfederal acute care hospitals use electronic health records (EHRs) certified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. In 2015, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology finalized the 2015 Health IT Certification Edition and adoption by hospitals began in 2016. We examine the impact of the 2015 Edition on rates of interoperable exchange among nonfederal acute hospitals.

Materials and methods

The study applies a standard difference-in-differences design and a recently developed fixed effects estimator that relaxes the assumption of treatment effects being constant across groups and time. In the analysis, we identify separate effects of the 2015 Edition for hospitals that switched EHR developers

SUBMITTER: Pylypchuk Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363795 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature