Why the study?
Does shared health information exchange (HIE) improve the odds of discharge home with home health among older adult Medicare beneficiaries with fragmented 30-day readmissions?
Does shared health information exchange (HIE) improve the odds of discharge home with home health among older adult Medicare beneficiaries with fragmented 30-day readmissions?
Shared health information exchange between hospitals during fragmented readmissions may facilitate better care coordination and higher rates of discharge home with home health for older adults.
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May support HIE for care coordination in fragmented readmissions; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
In this cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with 30-day readmissions, whether a readmission is fragmented was associated with discharge destination. Among fragmented readmissions, shared HIE across admission and readmission hospitals was associated with higher odds of discharge home with home health. Efforts to study the utility of HIE for care coordination for older adults should be pursued.
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Turbow et al. (2023) studied this question.
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