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ArticleJournal of medical systems2011

HIT implementation in critical access hospitals: extent of implementation and business strategies supporting IT use.

James A Bahensky, Marcia M Ward, Kwame Nyarko, Pengxiang Li

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Article in Journal of medical systems, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

James A BahenskyDepartment of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1008, USA. james-bahensky@uiowa.edu
Marcia M Ward
Kwame Nyarko
Pengxiang Li
University of Iowa · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Health Information Technology Value in Rural HospitalsR01HS015009 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI WARD, MARCIA M · 2004 to 2006
$420k
AHRQ HHS HS015009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small rural hospitals face considerable financial and personnel resource shortages which hinder their efforts to implement complex health information technology (HIT) systems. A survey on the use of HIT was completed by 85% of Iowa's 82 Critical Access Hospitals (CAH). Analyses indicate that low IT staffing in CAHs is a barrier to implementing HIT solutions. CAHs with fewer staff tend to employ alternative business strategies. There is a clear relationship between having IT staff at a CAH and the types of technologies used. Many CAHs report having difficulty expanding upon HIT functionalities due to the challenges of finding IT staff with healthcare expertise. Most CAHs are in the transition point of planning for or beginning implementation of complex clinical information systems. Strategies for addressing these challenges will need to evolve as the HIT investments by rural hospitals race to keep pace with the goals for the nation.

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Hospital AdministrationHospital Bed Capacity, under 100Hospitals, RuralHumansInformation SystemsIowaOutsourced Services

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PMID20703529
OpenAlexW2072129562

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