EHR Intelligence March 12, 2021
EHR vendors were the most significant factor of provider health information exchange use.
Health information exchange (HIE) is utilized in less than half of referrals, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), and factors like EHR vendor and patient characteristics were highly related to HIE use.
Accurate patient data and health information exchange is vital to effective care coordination and provider cost savings. However, health information exchange relies on robust health IT infrastructure to connect providers and hospitals.
The Promoting Interoperability program helps providers establish HIE connection. However, interoperability remains an issue for providers.
Researchers aimed to evaluate practice and market-level HIE use factors. The research team analyzed provider data from over...
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