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Background:

Health information technology (HIT) is designed to help reduce medical errors and improve quality of care and efficiency by providing the right information for the right patients in the right place at the right time. Nevertheless, substantial variation currently exists in the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) resulting in differences in hospital HIT capacity.

Purpose:

The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of different types of multihospital system affiliation on EMR adoption in hospitals in the United States.

Methodology:

A cross-sectional design was used with a sample of 4,017 hospitals in the United States. Secondary data were retrieved from the Health Information and Management Systems Society Analytics Database. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the impact of multihospital system affiliation on EMR level of adoption.

Findings:

The mean EMR adoption level varies …