Preparing for the evaluation of health information exchange.
To prepare for the evaluation of a health information exchange (HIE) project in New York City, we collected pre-implementation data regarding aspects of care that might be affected by the HIE initiative. The first application of the HIE will be to provide data to emergency physicians; therefore, we focused on measures relevant to emergency care. These data allowed us to better understand the characteristics of our patient population and perform sample size calculations for certain outcome measures.
Shapiro
Jason S
JS
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Vaidya
Sandip R
SR
Kuperman
Gilad
G
D003628:Database Management Systems; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009518:New York; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation