Information Technology in Healthcare

Project Summary

This project seeks to analyze how hospital use of IT overall, as well as specific investment in IT security, is associated with utilization and spending. We will link two sources of hospital-level data and conduct multivariate statistical analyses to examine the relationship between hospital IT and utilization:

1. Data on the use of HIT systems in hospitals from The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information databases, including the Dorenfest Integrated Healthcare Delivery System DatabasesTM for the period 1986 through 2003, plus the 2004 and 2005 data from the HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database (derived from the Dorenfest IHDS+ DatabaseTM).
2. Hospital utilization and spending data from the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare.

• Principal Investigator: Denise Anthony, Department of Sociology
• Project Researchers
• Project Publications
  
• Funding: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)