A criteria of Meaningful Use, part of the requirements of the HITECH Act, is to connect to a Health Information Exchange(HIE). The question is, will your state have an HIE ready by 2011? On August 20th Joe Biden, United States Vice President, announced in a press release that additional funding will be provided to states to support in the development of HIEs with the ultimate goal of developing a national network.
MEDSEEK’s Brad Hawkins, Vice President - Clinical Experience, was interviewed regarding the implementations of HIEs in the August edition of the eHealth Strategy and Trends newsletter for their series “Ask An Expert.” In the article, Brad provides an insightful look at building an internal HIE inside the four walls of a hospital and then what it takes to build a regional HIE, the building blocks to establishing a true exchange of health information within a state and then across the nation.
So how far along is your hospital/region/state in the process?
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