Digital Health Readiness and Medicare Primary Care Spending: Nationwide County-Level Observational Analysis

Zhaoqiang Zhou   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   John Geracitano   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Baiming Zou   ³ , PhD ;   Saif Khairat   ^{2, 4, 5} , PhD, MPH

¹ School of Data and Information Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

² Carolina Health Informatics Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

³ Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁴ School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁵ The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States