Skilled nursing providers that used health information exchange access to patient records didn’t have a better chance of seeing reduced patient readmissions, according to new findings.
University of Minnesota researchers found that resident declines in likelihood of 30-day readmission were not significantly different for patients whose SNFs worked with hospitals for health information exchange access and those that didn’t.
“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 post-acute transitions,” researchers concluded.
Researchers used discharge data from medical centers to SNFs between July 2013 and March 2017 and portal usage records from SNFs with health information exchange access.
Findings were published Thursday in Health Services Research.
