Pandemic spotlights utility of HIEs for population health, cost savings
Healthcare IT News February 4, 2021
As COVID-19 continues to surge in Los Angeles, LANES is enabling free-flowing data insights – medical, behavioral and socioeconomic ─ to close information gaps and improve clinical decision support for better outcomes.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us all the fragility of life, the disease also has indisputably revealed shortcomings in our U.S. health system. Our frontline healthcare providers, though an extraordinary testament to resiliency, are greatly in need of a better, more streamlined health information technology infrastructure to care for all patients, today and tomorrow.
In this spirit, the new year tilts the health information exchange in exciting directions in keeping with providers’ move from the practice of episodic, siloed care to consideration of the patient’s full spectrum...