Health information exchange between hospital and skilled nursing facilities not associated with lower readmissions.

Dori A CrossJeffrey S McCulloughJane Banaszak-HollJulia R Adler-Milstein

Published in: Health services research (2019)

Implementation of a hospital-SNF EHR portal did not reduce readmissions from enabled SNFs. Emergent HIE use cases need to be better defined and leveraged for design and implementation that generates value in the context of postacute transitions.

Keyphrases

health information
healthcare
quality improvement
acute care
primary care
social media
mental health
adverse drug
electronic health record