Abstract
In light of new federal policies allowing hospitals to subsidize the cost of information systems for physicians, we examine the relationship between local hospital investments in information technology (IT) and physician EMR adoption. Data from two Florida surveys were combined with secondary data from the State of Florida and the Area Resource File (ARF). Hierarchal logistic regression was used to examine the effect of hospital adoption of clinical information systems on physician adoption of EMR systems after controlling for confounders. In multivariate analysis, each additional clinical IT application adopted by a local hospital was associated with an 8% increase in the odds of EMR adoption by physicians practicing in that county. Given this existing relationship between hospital IT capabilities and physician adoption patterns, federal policies designed to encourage this more directly will positively promote the proliferation of EMR systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 329-335 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Medical Systems |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Hospital information systems
- Physician EMR adoption
- Stark law
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Health Informatics
- Health Information Management
- Information Systems