Table 1.
Information sharing among highest shared patient volume hospital relationships
Does your hospital and your HSP hospital share the same, single EHR? (n=68) | |
Yes (All Respondents) | 26% |
No All Respondents) | 74% |
Has your hospital made a partner-specific investment in facilitating health information exchange with your HSP hospital?a | |
No | 44% |
Moderate | 21% |
Substantial | 15% |
Otherb | 21% |
To what degree is your EHR “fully interoperable” with the EHR from your HSP hospital?a | |
Not or a little bit interoperable | 63% |
Somewhat interoperable | 15% |
Largely or Fully interoperable | 21% |
When you think about how you share health information with your HSP hospital, how would you compare it to how you share health information with other hospitals with which you share patients?a | |
Worse | 23% |
Same | 48% |
Better | 17% |
Other | 13% |
Source: Author-administered High Shared Patient Volume Survey.
Notes:
Only asked of the 50 respondents that did not share the same EHR with their HSP hospital.
Other includes situation in which the HSP hospital is on a network that covers a specific group of providers, eg, other Epic hospitals (via Care Everywhere), other hospitals participating in a community HIE.