EHR Intelligence December 21, 2020
Christopher Jason

Idaho’s statewide health information exchange (HIE) integrated two valuable platforms to address SDOH data challenges and ease patient care access.

Interoperability is critical for ensuring patient medical records are available across the healthcare sector. However, interoperability and patient data exchange are often difficult to achieve in a rural state, such as Idaho, that spans from the border of Canada, all the way down to the border of Utah.

Rural states do not have great data repositories and it’s difficult for rural providers to exchange social determinants of health (SDOH) data. Leaders at Idaho Health Data Exchange (IHDE) aimed to improve its data repositories by uncovering and integrating SDOH for its users across the state.

“We have 1.7 million individuals...

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