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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2018

The relationship between hospital and ehr vendor market dynamics on health information organization presence and participation.

Sunny C Lin, Julia Adler-Milstein

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Sunny C LinDepartment of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. sunnylin@umich.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4979-9058
Julia Adler-MilsteinDepartment of Medicine, Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Abstract

backgroundHealth Information Organizations (HIOs) are third party organizations that facilitate electronic health information exchange (HIE) between providers in a geographic area. Despite benefits from HIE, HIOs have struggled to form and subsequently gain broad provider participation. We sought to assess whether market-level hospital and EHR vendor dynamics are associated with presence and level of hospital participation in HIOs.

methods2014 data on 4523 hospitals and their EHR vendors were aggregated to the market level. We used multivariate OLS regression to analyze the relationship between hospital and vendor dynamics and (1) probability of HIO presence and (2) percent of hospitals participating in an HIO.

results298 of 469 markets (64%) had HIO presence, and in those markets, 47% of hospitals participated in an HIO on average. In multivariate analysis, four characteristics were associated with HIO presence. Markets with more hospitals, markets with more EHR vendors, and markets with an EHR vendor-led HIE approach were more likely to have an HIO. Compared to markets with low hospital competition, markets with high hospital competition had a 25 percentage point lower probability of HIO presence. Two characteristics were associated with level of hospital HIO participation. Markets with more hospitals as well as markets with high vendor competition (compared to low competition) had lower participation.

conclusionBoth hospital and EHR vendor dynamics are associated with whether a market has an HIO as well as the level of hospital participation in HIOs.

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CommerceElectronic Health RecordsHealth Information ExchangeHospitalsHumansSystems IntegrationUnited StatesElectronic health recordsHealth information exchangeSystems integration

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