Health Information Technology Adoption: Effects On Patient Safety And Quality Of Care

Keywords

Acute care; Health outcome; Healthcare information technology; HIT; Patient safety; Quality of care; Technology adoption

Abstract

The adoption of healthcare information technology (HIT) has been advocated by various groups as critical for addressing the growing crisis in the US healthcare industry. This study aims to understand differences in patient outcomes between healthcare providers that do and that do not adopt HIT. This is accomplished by examining the relationships between the adoption of HIT in US acute care hospitals and two risk-adjusted patient outcomes: patient safety and quality. The new contribution of the study lies in the fact that it uses nationally representative data and it incorporates a large number of technologies.

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Publication Title

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management

Volume

15

Issue

1

Number of Pages

31-48

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHTM.2015.070519

Socpus ID

84949515509 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84949515509

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