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Although some of the impacts of evolving HIT and EHRs have been studied in acute care hospitals and physician office settings, there is a dearth of information about the deployment and effectiveness of Health IT in long-term and post-acute care facilities. How does health IT implementation and use affect the fast-growing long term and post-acute care (LTPAC) sector of the U.S. healthcare economy? The goal of this paper is to fill the gap in the current research by assessing the role of health information systems within the LTPAC industry by adopting configurational perspective towards the organized complexity of LTPAC transitions of care business strategy. We examine data obtained from an organization that operates more than 200 long term care and post-acute care facilities (LTPAC) across multiple states. Our research investigates parsimonious configurations for the high qualitative performance of LTPAC facilities with Health IT characterized by organizational complexity.

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Aug 10th, 12:00 AM

Role of Health IT in LTPAC Facilities

Although some of the impacts of evolving HIT and EHRs have been studied in acute care hospitals and physician office settings, there is a dearth of information about the deployment and effectiveness of Health IT in long-term and post-acute care facilities. How does health IT implementation and use affect the fast-growing long term and post-acute care (LTPAC) sector of the U.S. healthcare economy? The goal of this paper is to fill the gap in the current research by assessing the role of health information systems within the LTPAC industry by adopting configurational perspective towards the organized complexity of LTPAC transitions of care business strategy. We examine data obtained from an organization that operates more than 200 long term care and post-acute care facilities (LTPAC) across multiple states. Our research investigates parsimonious configurations for the high qualitative performance of LTPAC facilities with Health IT characterized by organizational complexity.

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