Hospitals and Health Information Exchanges (HIE)

Project Summary:

For this project the research questions were:

1. What hospital factors are associated with having an HIE installed?
2. Is having an HIE installed linked to better performance?
   
   

I combined five datasets detailed below to answer these questions:

• American Hospital Association Data 2010 - 2017 : : 50,264 records - 86 variables
• HIMSS Demographics Data 2018 : : 5,594 records - 35 variables
• HIMSS Technology Data 2018 : : 1,048,575 records - 19 variables
• HIMSS HIE Data 2018 : : 6,491 records - 10 variables
• HIMSS Patient Survey Data 2018 : : 260,361 records - 28 variables
  
  

Steps Involved:

• Creating Outline Block Models to Answer the Research Questions
• Selecting Variables from Data Description Files for Download Submission Request
• Merging the Data Sets
• Data Preparation, Cleaning, Reduction
• Data Exploration and Visualization
• Creating a Technology Score Data Variable from the HIMSS Technology Data
• Correlation and Significance Testing
• Building Logistic and Linear Regression Models to Answer the Research Questions
• Developing Insights from the Models
  
  

Files Uploaded:

1. "RashmiMariyappa_1_HospitalHIE_Presentation"
   This presentation provides a full detail of the project, analysis, and key findings
   
   
2. "RashmiMariyappa_2_HospitalHIE_Report"
   This report further details the project, analysis, and key findings
   
   
3. "RashmiMariyappa_3_HospitalHIE_Merge_Code"
   The R code used to merge, clean, and prepare the data
   
   
4. "RashmiMariyappa_4_HospitalHIE_Analysis_Code"
   The R code used for the data analysis and model building