Start Date
14-12-2012 12:00 AM
Description
This paper examines the impact of health information technology (HIT) implementation and meaningful use on hospital productivity and financial performance. Focusing on healthcare affords unique opportunity to understand how individual hospitals implement and utilize the HITs in a meaningful way for better performance. We propose hypotheses predicting a hospital’s operating and financial performance as a function of HIT capital, meaningful use of HIT, and the complementary effect of health information exchange (HIE) coordination with HIT use. Secondary survey data over a three-year period (2007-2009) on various HIT and hospital performance measures collected from 2,557 U.S. hospitals were analyzed by hierarchical linear regression approach. We find reasonably good support for our hypotheses linking HIT capital and meaningful use of HIT to productivity metrics and to financial performance, after controlling for key factors. These findings show that it is important to track and measure meaningful use beyond simply looking at HIT adoption.
Recommended Citation
Hah, Hyeyoung and Bharadwaj, Anandhi, "A Multi-level Analysis of the Impact of Health Information Technology on Hospital Performance" (2012). ICIS 2012 Proceedings. 4.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2012/proceedings/ITHealth/4
A Multi-level Analysis of the Impact of Health Information Technology on Hospital Performance
This paper examines the impact of health information technology (HIT) implementation and meaningful use on hospital productivity and financial performance. Focusing on healthcare affords unique opportunity to understand how individual hospitals implement and utilize the HITs in a meaningful way for better performance. We propose hypotheses predicting a hospital’s operating and financial performance as a function of HIT capital, meaningful use of HIT, and the complementary effect of health information exchange (HIE) coordination with HIT use. Secondary survey data over a three-year period (2007-2009) on various HIT and hospital performance measures collected from 2,557 U.S. hospitals were analyzed by hierarchical linear regression approach. We find reasonably good support for our hypotheses linking HIT capital and meaningful use of HIT to productivity metrics and to financial performance, after controlling for key factors. These findings show that it is important to track and measure meaningful use beyond simply looking at HIT adoption.