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

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 435-442

  Vest, Joshua R ^a,b   Kern, Lisa M ^a,b   Silver, Michael D ^a,b   Kaushal, Rainu ^a,b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

American recovery and reinvestment act; Health information exchange; Health policy; Patient admission; Patient readmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEW YORK; PATIENT INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATASETS AS TOPIC; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934272625     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002760     Document Type: Article

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