Only 10.7% of US hospitals engaged in HIE with unaffiliated providers, indicating low participation rates. For-profit hospitals and those with smaller market shares were less likely to participate in ...

Healthcare professionals used a complex combination of information retrieval pathways for health information exchange to obtain clinical information from external organizations. Primary data was ...

We have been watching the statistics for more than weeks now. We watch with a sense of disbelief, horror, sorrow, hope, disgust, and impatience. We hear about the number of tests performed, positive ...

A new system in Oklahoma could make it easier for your doctor to share your information with other providers. Oklahoma's State-Designed Health Information Exchange is through the MyHealth Access ...

Allan Hackney, the state’s health information technology officer. The idea of a single health information exchange across the state of Connecticut seems simple: Gather all health information in one ...

Editor's note: This post is published in conjunction with the March issue of Health Affairs, which features a cluster of articles on jails and health. For more on jails and health information ...

It’s been an incredibly busy summer for the Office of the National Coordinator, which has responsibility for developing federal policy and rules regarding health information technology. The agency ...

The average individual sees four health care providers per year, typically requiring the sharing of medical records between these facilities to successfully provide care to the individual. In most ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The eHealth Exchange, one of the nation’s largest health information networks connecting federal agencies and healthcare providers, recently reached a major ...

Now nearly forgotten in the midst of the worst global pandemic of the past century, the recently released federal rules governing electronic health data presage an era in which patient-driven health ...

Nearly everyone has experienced how frustrating it is when healthcare records don’t follow you around. Indiana Health Information Exchange, a nonprofit health information exchange, makes it possible ...