Clinical Innovation September 14, 2017
Cara Livernois

Health information exchanges (HIEs) could save billions in Medicare and Medicaid spending, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Notre Dame.

Led by Idris Adjerid and Corey Angst, IT professors in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and Julia Adler-Milstein of the University of California San Francisco, the study set to be published in Information Systems Research aimed to provide evidence that utilizing information technology can save billions in healthcare costs.

“Our results focusing on the interplay between HIE value and financial incentives in health care are highly relevant to an active debate on how to best design payment models to incentivize high-quality and cost-effective care,” said Adjerid. “This research is also important because it highlights...

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