The potential for community-based health information exchange systems to reduce hospital readmissions.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that usage of an electronic HIE system in the ambulatory setting within 30 days after hospital discharge may effectively prevent hospital readmissions, thereby supporting the need for ongoing HIE efforts.
PMID: 25100447 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - August 6, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vest JR, Kern LM, Silver MD, Kaushal R, for the HITEC investigators Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research