Assessing hospital electronic health record vendor performance across publicly reported quality measures.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Little is known regarding variation among electronic health record (EHR) vendors in quality performance. This issue is compounded by selection effects in which high-quality hospitals coalesce to a subset of market leading vendors. We measured hospital performance, stratified by EHR vendor, across 4 quality metrics.

Materials and methods

We used data on 1272 hospitals in 2018 across 4 quality measures: Leapfrog Computerized Provider Order Entry/EHR Evaluation, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare Star Ratings, Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) score, and Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) ratio. We examined score distributions and used multivariable regression to evaluate the association between vendor and score, recovering partial

SUBMITTER: Holmgren AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8449606 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature