Location

Level 0, Open Space, Owen G. Glenn Building

Start Date

12-15-2014

Description

The adoption of Health IT systems has been argued to bring improvements in hospitals that adopt them. However, examining a panel of hospitals for IT adoption, we find that about 50% of hospitals that adopt a health IT system roll back the system. We find that smaller hospitals and hospitals that are located in areas that have low IT-Intensity are more likely to roll-back their health IT systems. Additionally, we find that advanced IT systems (that are more complex to implement) are more likely to be rolled back in the absence of complementary services and in smaller organizations. Additionally, we discuss further research that we hope to undertake where we examine the effect of other factors on the probability of health IT system roll-back. We hope that reducing this roll-back can reduce the unnecessary costs that hospitals may have to incur as they implement health IT systems.

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Dec 15th, 12:00 AM

Antecedents of Health IT Roll Back

Level 0, Open Space, Owen G. Glenn Building

The adoption of Health IT systems has been argued to bring improvements in hospitals that adopt them. However, examining a panel of hospitals for IT adoption, we find that about 50% of hospitals that adopt a health IT system roll back the system. We find that smaller hospitals and hospitals that are located in areas that have low IT-Intensity are more likely to roll-back their health IT systems. Additionally, we find that advanced IT systems (that are more complex to implement) are more likely to be rolled back in the absence of complementary services and in smaller organizations. Additionally, we discuss further research that we hope to undertake where we examine the effect of other factors on the probability of health IT system roll-back. We hope that reducing this roll-back can reduce the unnecessary costs that hospitals may have to incur as they implement health IT systems.