Becker's Healthcare September 18, 2025
Ella Jeffries

Hospitals serving socioeconomically disadvantaged communities are less likely to adopt health IT tools such as telehealth and health information exchange platforms.

The finding comes from a study published Sept. 5 in JAMA Health Forum, which analyzed 16,646 hospital-level and 9,218 health information exchange observations from the American Hospital Association’s annual survey and annual IT survey between 2018 and 2023. Researchers linked the data to an area deprivation index and found...

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