Is Electronic Information Exchange Associated With Lower 30-Day Readmission Charges Among Medicare Beneficiaries?

*Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

†Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

‡Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

§Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics & Gerontology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

∥Department of Veterans Affairs, Birmingham/Atlanta Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Atlanta, GA

¶Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

#Alliant Health Group, Atlanta, GA

**Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

††Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K23AG065505 and by the Program for Retaining, Supporting, and EleVating Early-career Researchers at Emory (PeRSEVERE) from the Emory School of Medicine, a gift from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and through the Georgia CTSA NIH award (UL1-TR002378). This material is the result of work supported with resources and the use of facilities at the Atlanta VA Health Care System. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the Department of Veterans Affairs. The sponsors had no role in the design, methods, subject recruitment, data collection, analysis, or preparation of the manuscript.

S.T. reports serving as an expert witness for Hovde Dassow + Deets and receiving funding to attend a conference from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. M.K.A. reports receiving funding from NIDDK and NHLBI for research unrelated to this work, and for consulting fees from Bayer and Eli Lilly unrelated to this work. S.T. and M.K.A. report receiving funding from Merck for research unrelated to this work. The remaining authors, P.K.C., S.D.C.,C.P.V., C.R., K.J.R., M.M.P., and C.K.C., declare no conflict of interest.

Correspondence to: Sara D. Turbow, MD, MPH, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE, Atlanta, GA 30303. E-mail: [email protected].

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