The effects of health IT adoption on hospital readmission reduction: Evidence from U.S. Panel data

Yongjin Park; Youngsok Bang; Juhee Kwon

doi:10.24251/hicss.2019.800

The effects of health IT adoption on hospital readmission reduction: Evidence from U.S. Panel data

Yongjin Park
, Youngsok Bang
, Juhee Kwon

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

Abstract

U.S. government subsidies under the HITECH Act of 2009 have boosted hospitals' IT investments, which are expected to improve the quality of care as well as the effectiveness of healthcare management. Given the rush to adopt health information technology (HIT) throughout the continuum of care across healthcare providers, this study tries to identify the spillover effects of HIT adoption on quality of care. Using 1,965 U.S. hospital data in 232 health referral regions (HRRs), we examine how a hospital's and its neighboring hospitals' HIT adoptions interact with each other and how they impact readmission rates. We find that a hospital's readmission rate is reduced by both its own and neighbors' HIT adoption. Such effects become greater along with the focal hospital's own adoption. We further investigate how spillover effects vary with HRRs' different market structures and hospitals' meaningful-use status. Our findings offer theoretical and managerial insights for both healthcare researchers and practitioners.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	6687-6696
Volume	2019-January
ISBN (Print)	9780998133126
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2019.800
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019 - Maui, United States Duration: 8 Jan 2019 → 11 Jan 2019 https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/59440

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume	2019-January
ISSN (Print)	1530-1605

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Conference	52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
Place	United States
City	Maui
Period	8/01/19 → 11/01/19
Internet address	https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/59440

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Park, Y., Bang, Y., & Kwon, J. (2019). The effects of health IT adoption on hospital readmission reduction: Evidence from U.S. Panel data. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019 (Vol. 2019-January, pp. 6687-6696). (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2019-January). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2019.800

Park, Yongjin ; Bang, Youngsok ; Kwon, Juhee. / The effects of health IT adoption on hospital readmission reduction : Evidence from U.S. Panel data. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019. Vol. 2019-January IEEE Computer Society, 2019. pp. 6687-6696 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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The effects of health IT adoption on hospital readmission reduction: Evidence from U.S. Panel data. / Park, Yongjin; Bang, Youngsok; Kwon, Juhee.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019. Vol. 2019-January IEEE Computer Society, 2019. p. 6687-6696 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2019-January).

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