title: Community-based health information technology alliances: potential predictors of early sustainability.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine potential predictors of sustainability among community-based organizations that are implementing health information technology (HIT) with health information exchange, in a state with significant funding of such organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  A longitudinal cohort study of community-based organizations funded through the first phase of the $440 million Healthcare Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers program.
  
  
  METHODS
  We administered a baseline telephone survey in January and February 2007, using a novel instrument with open-ended questions, and collected follow-up data from the New York State Department of Health regarding subsequent funding awarded in March 2008. We used logistic regression to determine associations between 18 organizational characteristics and subsequent funding.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All 26 organizations (100%) responded. Having the alliance led by a health information organization (odds ratio [OR] 11.4, P = .01) and having performed a community-based needs assessment (OR 5.1, P = .08) increased the unadjusted odds of subsequent funding. Having the intervention target the long-term care setting (OR 0.14, P = .03) decreased the unadjusted odds of subsequent funding. In the multivariate model, having the alliance led by a health information organization, rather than a healthcare organization, increased the odds of subsequent funding (adjusted OR 6.4; 95% confidence interval 0.8, 52.6; P = .08).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results from this longitudinal study suggest that both health information organizations and healthcare organizations are needed for sustainable HIT transformation.
authors: Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA. lmk2003@med.cornell.edu
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