Health IT Interoperability August 1, 2016
Kyle Murphy, PhD

Recent studies on health information exchange highlights trends potentially detrimental to advancing health IT interoperability.

Factors impacting health information exchanges and HIE use are the subject of two studies published in the most recent issue of Health Affairs.

The first could signal the beginning of the end for many standalone health information exchanges and their role in clinical data exchange while the second could provide the insight necessary to understand the role of EHR vendors in information blocking.

According to Alder-Milstein et al., the number of operational sate and community health information organizations (HIOs) is on the decline, from 119 in 2012 to 106 in 2014. Not only is the number of operational health information exchanges decreasing, but the number...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HITECH, MACRA, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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