Healthcare Innovation May 19, 2021
Could the vital work that statewide HIEs have performed during the COVID-19 pandemic open an important door for HIE development in the future, focusing strongly on some of the data needs of public health officials?
Enough predictions about the future of health information exchanges (HIEs) have already been written by industry luminaries and observers to fill a few books by now. Yet the reality is that no sector of the U.S. healthcare industry has been subjected to more shifts in policy, payment, operational, and other trends in the last several years than the HIE sector. Following the initial flurry of HIE development a decade ago, the eventual loss of the federal and state funds that facilitated the founding of...