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Youyou Tao1, Ruilin Zhu2, Dezhi Wu3
1Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
JMIR Formative Research
|October 1, 2024
Summary
Smart tracking technology (STT) and complementary health ITs significantly reduce 30-day readmission risk. Joint implementation of STT for clinical use with supply chain management, mobile IT, and health information exchange yields positive outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Clinical Workflow Optimization
- Healthcare Management
Background:
- Smart tracking technology (STT) for clinical use shows potential in reducing 30-day all-cause readmission risk by improving workflow efficiency.
- Existing literature inadequately addresses the combined impact of STT for clinical use and other health information technologies (HITs).
- There is a lack of research on the specific complementarity effects between STT for clinical use and other relevant HITs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the joint effects of STT for clinical use and three complementary HITs on reducing 30-day all-cause readmission risk.
- To examine pooled complementarity between STT for clinical use and STT for supply chain management.
- To analyze symbiotic complementarity between STT for clinical use and mobile IT, and between STT for clinical use and health information exchange (HIE).
Main Methods:
- Utilized a longitudinal in-patient dataset of 879,122 admissions across 61 hospitals in Florida and New York (2014-2015).
- Employed logistic regression to assess the impact of HITs on readmission risks, controlling for time and hospital fixed effects.
- Applied robust standard errors clustered at the patient level to ensure statistical accuracy.
Main Results:
- The interaction between STT for clinical use and STT for supply chain management, mobile IT, and HIE was negatively associated with 30-day readmission risk (P=.003, P<.001, P=.04, respectively).
- Confirmed pooled complementarity between STT for clinical use and STT for supply chain management.
- Confirmed symbiotic complementarity between STT for clinical use and mobile IT, and between STT for clinical use and HIE.
Conclusions:
- Joint implementation of STT for clinical use with other HITs significantly reduces 30-day readmission risk.
- This study quantifies the complementarity effects of four HITs, contributing to HIT value literature.
- Hospitals can leverage these findings to optimize complementary HITs for reduced readmission rates.
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