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Dec 17 2019

A study in Health Services Research finds that a hospital and a skilled nursing facility having a shared EHR for information exchange is not associated with reduced readmissions.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6773.13210

Dec 18 2015

Evidence for Health Information Exchange Benefits

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A review of the effects of health information exchange finds little solid evidence of benefits in outcomes.

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Dec 03 2014

An article in the Annals of Internal Medicine does a metareview of research on the effects of health information exchanges, finding very limited evidence for a possible reduction in ER use, and no clear evidence of other benefits.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1983413

Dec 20 2012

Health Information Exchange Status

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The other exchange in health care--health information exchanges--are designed to ensure that all the data whizzing around in all the fancy new electronic medical record systems and other provider and…

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Oct 09 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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As electronic medical records systems make their way into healthcare’s regular workflow, two recent, but separate surveys show that physicians may be buying into the value of joining health information exchanges.

Oct 08 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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As electronic medical records systems make their way into healthcare’s regular workflow, two recent, but separate surveys show that physicians may be buying into the value of joining health information exchanges.

Jan 06 2012

HealthcareITNews.com

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Iowa is poised to build a health information exchange (HIE) that will make it possible for even small rural medical practices to share patient information.

Oct 14 2011

InformationWeek.com

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The Nebraska Health Information Initiative has signed 14 critical access hospitals to its statewide health information exchange in recent weeks, with others expected to join as more hospitals roll out digital health record systems.

Aug 30 2011

informationweek

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Payoff on HIEs can be hard to calculate, but analysis of a Wisconsin pilot program showed clear savings via elimination of duplicate tests

Aug 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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According to a report from the National eHealth Collaborative, “HIEs serving rural markets seem to have a natural advantage over urban HIEs

Aug 05 2011

govhealthit.com

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Health information exchange SMRTNET has managed to build a network of seven networks and has attracted a broad range of 3,000 providers in 2011 that share data between hospitals, Native American tribes, community health centers, labs, universities and private physicians.

Jun 28 2011

GovhealthIT

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State HIEs wrangle with thorny ‘patient consent’ issue

May 18 2011

searchhealthit.com

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Blumenthal: Building national health network could take decades

Feb 16 2011

The Direct Project

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The Direct Project: The Direct Project specifies a simple, secure, scalable, standards-based way for participants to send authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet.

Dec 22 2010

govhealthit.com

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Blumenthal to set aggressive pace for health data exchange

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