TY - JOUR
T1 - Rapid adoption of electronic health record and health information exchange among assisted living communities, 2010-2018
AU - Lin, Sunny C.
AU - Tunalilar, Ozcan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - Adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchange (HIE) is a key tool to improving the quality of care in assisted living communities (ALC). We examined whether EHRs were being used in ALC to support HIE in 2010 and 2018. We found that adoption of EHR and HIE functions increased substantially over the study period. However, adoption of HIE functions lagged significantly behind EHR functions in both 2010 and 2018 and was accompanied by growing disparities in the adoption of EHR functions among smaller, nonchain, and for-profit communities. To improve the quality of care for this important and growing population, targeted policies are needed to support the adoption of both EHR and HIE functions in ALC.
AB - Adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchange (HIE) is a key tool to improving the quality of care in assisted living communities (ALC). We examined whether EHRs were being used in ALC to support HIE in 2010 and 2018. We found that adoption of EHR and HIE functions increased substantially over the study period. However, adoption of HIE functions lagged significantly behind EHR functions in both 2010 and 2018 and was accompanied by growing disparities in the adoption of EHR functions among smaller, nonchain, and for-profit communities. To improve the quality of care for this important and growing population, targeted policies are needed to support the adoption of both EHR and HIE functions in ALC.
KW - assisted living facilities
KW - electronic health record
KW - health information exchange
KW - residential facilities
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U2 - 10.1093/jamia/ocac021
DO - 10.1093/jamia/ocac021
M3 - Article
C2 - 35187569
AN - SCOPUS:85128488909
SN - 1067-5027
VL - 29
SP - 953
EP - 957
JO - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
JF - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
IS - 5
ER -