The Impact of Community Health Information Exchange Usage on Time to Reutilization of Hospital Services.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Few studies have determined whether clinician usage of a community health information exchange (HIE) directly improves patient care transitions. We hypothesized that lookup in the HIE by primary care physicians of patients recently released from the hospital would increase the time until hospital reuse.

Methods

We identified a retrospective cohort of 8,216 hospital inpatients aged over 18 years that were discharged from January 1, 2021 through November 30, 2021 using the Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, in El Paso County, Texas. All patients had a primary care physician visit within 30 days after hospital discharge, and we identified patients that were looked up in the HIE close to that visit. Of the cohort, 2,627 were rehospitalized and 3,809 visited an e

SUBMITTER: Sloan-Aagard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9870640 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature