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Hospital systems frequently point to potential gains in interoperability and electronic exchange of patient information as consolidation benefits. We sought to assess whether hospitals in different health system structures varied in their interoperable data sharing.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We created a cross-sectional national hospital sample from the 2014 AHA Annual Survey and 2015 IT Supplement. We combined the existing taxonomy of health system organizational forms and the ONC\u2019s functionality-based, technology-agnostic definition of interoperability. We used logistic regression models to assess the relationship between health systems\u2019 organizational forms and interoperability engagement, controlling for hospital characteristics.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We found that interoperability engagement varied greatly across hospitals in different health system structures, with facilities in more centralized health systems more likely to be interoperable. Hospitals in one system type, featuring centralized insurance product development but diverse service offerings across member organizations, had significantly higher odds of being engaged in interoperable data sharing in our multivariate regression results.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The heterogeneity in health system interoperability engagement indicates that incentives to share data vary greatly across organizational strategies and structures. Our results suggest that horizontal consolidation in the hospital industry may not bring significant gains in interoperability progress unless that consolidation takes a specific business alignment form.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Policymakers should be wary of claims that horizontal consolidation will lead to interoperability gains. Future research should explore the specific mechanisms that lead to greater interoperability in certain health system organizational structures.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/jamia\/ocy084","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,1]],"date-time":"2018-06-01T19:11:41Z","timestamp":1527880301000},"page":"1147-1152","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Assessing the impact of health system organizational structure on hospital electronic data sharing"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"A Jay","family":"Holmgren","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eric W","family":"Ford","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Alabama \u2013 Birmingham, School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"2020110612234002600_ocy084-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"44","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jhealeco.2016.02.002","article-title":"Improving efficiency or impairing access? 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