ABSTRACT
Overview Healthcare reform in 2009 placed a focus on increasing HIT adoption for healthcare providers through government funding. Nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals and health centers tend to be driven by a few core competencies that define their organizational culture: (1) mission statements, management, and compensation of employees; (2) training of staff; and (3) goal-oriented behavior. These factors will likely impact the ability for an organization to adopt and implement health information technology (HIT), which should translate into lower costs and higher quality of care, yet organizations are not adopting HIT. An abundance of literature has discussed how organizations internally differ in their organizational culture, but literature doesn’t expand on how these differences vary across providers, and how they impact the variation in HIT adoption. This chapter will address gaps in the literature and provide policy analysis that can abound by internalizing HIT as a part of the organizational culture across healthcare providers.
