Patient crossover and potentially avoidable repeat computed tomography exams across a health information exchange
Author(s) -
Benjamin H. Slovis,
Tina Lowry,
Bradley N. Delman,
Anton Oscar Beitia,
Gilad J. Kuperman,
Charles DiMaggio,
Jason S. Shapiro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocw035
Subject(s) - medicine , health information exchange , retrospective cohort study , computed tomography , cohort , current procedural terminology , nuclear medicine , radiology , medical physics , surgery , health care , health information , economics , economic growth
The purpose of this study was to measure the number of repeat computed tomography (CT) scans performed across an established health information exchange (HIE) in New York City. The long-term objective is to build an HIE-based duplicate CT alerting system to reduce potentially avoidable duplicate CTs.
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