Fierce Healthcare August 17, 2020
Tina Reed

Health information exchanges (HIEs) have come a long way since they rose to prominence more than a decade ago as a key component of the HITECH Act. Originally supported largely by federal and state grants, HIEs started as a means of helping providers share large amounts of disparate patient data.

In these early days, HIEs focused primarily on pushing data from one entity to another to enable providers to support care collaboration. Today, as a result of dwindling grants and evolving business models, HIEs look very different from their predecessors a decade ago. The key has been keeping up with the ever-changing healthcare industry. Unexpectedly, the pandemic has ushered in a renaissance for HIEs, with the need to bring together...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Payer, Provider, Technology
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