Health information technology and hospital quality of care.
This study evaluates the association between health information technology (HIT) implementation and hospital quality of care using nationally representative datasets from HIMSS Analytics and CMS. The results show that the availability of HIT is associated with higher hospital quality of care when adjusted for hospital characteristics and geographic location. The effects varied by specific HIT application and across hospital quality measures.
Furukawa
Michael
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School of Health Management and Policy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Adam
Terrence
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D001130:Arizona; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic