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Revision as of 02:58, 26 April 2022
Electronic health information exchange
Overview
The efficient, effective and equitable delivery of care is vital to the well-being of patients, their families, and the community as a whole. In order to meet this need and improve the care it requires information to be exchanged among various groups so that health professional have the information they need to make informed decision that impact lives. Electronic health information exchange (HIE) offers a way for clinicians and organizations to electronically send and receive complete patient information between different facilities and systems that would normally not be able to communicate. HIE began at a time where technology, system standards, and health IT vendors used diverse and disconnected programs; creating a barrier to access patient records, health histories, and pertinent laboratory, radiology, and pathology results or orders. This was a significant deficit in quality of care, as it limited clinicians' ability to see the full picture and properly evaluate, assess, diagnose, and treat their patients. About 15 years ago, HIE began to transform into a more mature tool for care coordination, leading to the emergence of four primary roles of HIE(1):
1. Interconnectivity -- HIE tools help organizations avoid custom, point-to-point connections, where each provider must create a separate connection to every other system, service, and provider they want to communicate with
2. Clinical document exchange -- Efforts taken to ensure providers follow regulations that have established a minimum set of elements that providers should exchange to coordinate care; currently the "Continuity of Care Document (CCD)"
3. Creating a community health record -- Regional HIEs can consolidate a patient’s health information into a community health record, which is a more complete picture of the care a patient is receiving
4. Encounter notifications -- HIE can be used to alert clinicians and other members of a patient's care team to make providers aware of recent encounters, health problems, emergency needs, etc. to ensure proper follow up and intervention is taken
Advantages
Disadvantages & Strategies
1. Privacy, confidentiality, security
A recent federal study of the potential unintended consequences of electronic health information exchange revealed several characteristics that, if not addressed soon, could lead to data and privacy issues (3)
Protocols & standards
Sources
Submitted by (LeeAnn Farestrand)
