National Survey Reveals New Insights on Health Information Organizations
HealthIT.gov January 7, 2025
Health information exchange organizations (HIOs) are networks that enable the electronic exchange of health information across participating health care providers, public health agencies, payers, and other entities. They also have a unique, wide-angle lens on the state of interoperability nationwide. Since 2020, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) has partnered with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Civitas Networks for Health (Civitas) to survey HIOs. We recently published a number of studies from the most recent survey, fielded in 2023, that provide an important view into HIOs’ evolution, the role they play in promoting interoperability, and the state of interoperability more broadly.