Health Information Exchange

Electronic health information exchange (HIE) allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers and patients to appropriately access and securely share a patient’s vital medical information electronically—improving the speed, quality, safety and cost of patient care.

HIE Benefits

• Improves the quality and safety of patient care by reducing medication and medical errors
• Encourages consumer education and patients' involvement in their own health care
• Increases efficiency by eliminating unnecessary paperwork
• Provides caregivers with clinical decision support tools for more effective care and treatment
• Eliminates redundancy of testing
• Improves public health reporting and monitoring
• Encourages feedback between health-related research and actual practice
• Assists the efficient deployment of emerging technology and health care services
• Provides a basic level of reciprocity among individual physicians and organizations through electronic health records (EHRs)
• Reduces health related costs