Emergency departments save nearly $2M through HIE data use

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November 10, 2011

 

Emergency departments save nearly $2M through HIE data use 

 

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The sharing of electronic data among 12 Memphis-area emergency departments
reduced hospital admissions and redundant imaging tests, according to a new
study by researchers at Vanderbilt University. The EDs' total annual cost
savings of $1.9 million were nearly all attributable to avoidance of
admissions, the study found.

Dr. Mark Frisse, lead author of the paper published in the Journal of the
American Medical Informatics Association, told Healthcare IT News that this
was the first city-wide study of the impact of a health information exchange
on emergency departments.

The researchers looked at all ED encounters in which HIE information was
accessed during a 13-month period. HIE-access encounter records were matched
with records of visits in which no HIE data was obtained to calculate the
benefits of using an information exchange in emergency departments.

HIE data was obtained in 7 percent of the ED encounters. Clinicians in 11 of
the EDs obtained the data through web browsers, while those in the twelfth
ED depended more on print summaries of the data. Interestingly, the latter
was the only department to show a significant drop in the use of CT scans
and lab tests.

The Vanderbilt researchers believe that the savings demonstrated in the ED
departments are only 2 percent of the cost reduction that could be achieved
if all physicians were connected to HIEs, according to Frisse.

 

 

 

Marcus Williams &
Brian Potts MD, MBA
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service

 

 

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