Health Information Exchange (HIE). A recipe that just might work.

If there is anything that plagues the health industry and severely damages the value proposition for information technology in healthcare, it is the dismal failure to achieve system interoperability and perhaps more importantly, health information exchange. No matter how elegant an individual clinic’s or hospitals’ or health system’s electronic health record solution might be, the value of the patient data these systems capture is significantly diminished if it cannot be reliably shared with those who need to see it and use it. That would include not only other hospitals, clinics and health systems where a patient might go, but also a much wider universe of healthcare providers, agencies, and services that nearly all people will encounter over the course of a lifetime. Health Information Exchange or HIE has been a frequent topic here on HealthBlog. I don’t discount the considerable advances that have been made in the use of information technology in healthcare over the last decade or so. Electronic health records are becoming commonplace in developed and even some developing countries. At last count, about 83 percent of American physicians are now using an electronic solution to capture patient information. I see a promising future in which eventually all health information will reside in electronic format. I see a time when clinicians and institutions ...
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