Advanced use of health information technology to support new models of care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- TrendWatch (American Hospital Association) and Annual survey IT supplement brief (American Hospital Association)
- Contributor(s):
- American Hospital Association, issuing body. Milken Institute School of Public Health, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : American Hospital Association, July 2018
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care -- methods Medical Informatics Decision Support Techniques Electronic Health Records Information Dissemination Medical Order Entry Systems Practice Guidelines as Topic Quality of Health Care Telemedicine Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- A growing number of hospitals and health systems are implementing new models of care delivery and payment that focus on enhanced care coordination and value, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical homes, and bundled payment programs. These models emphasize quality and patient safety as essential components of value and depend on hospitals' and health systems' ability to collect and use electronic data through health information technology (IT) to coordinate care and evaluate progress toward achieving expected quality improvements and cost savings. Over the last five years, hospitals and health systems across the board have made significant investments in health IT. These investments have greatly expanded the availability of electronic patient data to patients and to partnering care providers, as well as allowed for the integration of electronic health tools to improve care outcomes. Many new models of care require this enhanced functionality in order to coordinate care across settings of care. As such, hospitals and health systems participating in these models are somewhat more likely to have advanced functions built into their health IT systems, such as computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and the integration of clinical guidelines for decision support. This brief is the fourth in a series of issue briefs highlighting data from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016--April 2017. This fourth brief compares the use of health IT by hospitals and health systems that are participating in new models of care with those that are not. Hospitals and health systems are considered to be participating in new models of care if they reported having at least one of the following: an ACO, a medical home program, or participation in a bundled payment program. In the 2016/2017 survey, 41 percent of responding hospitals reported that they participated in new models of care, up from 19 percent of respondents in 2012.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (5 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101751766 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101751766