Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) offer hospitals an efficient way to share test results. Without an HIE, communication of patient information between providers is often slow or incomplete, sometimes causing duplicate testing for patients with multiple health care providers.
Driven by local providers, HIE Networks permits providers to access patients’ complete records to determine existing prescribed medications and ordered tests. Physicians can view this information quickly and easily, reducing medication errors and duplication of tests while improving the overall quality of care.
Benefits for hospitals include:
- Reduced interfacing costs through the use of a single data feed from the hospital to the HIE.
- Secure data access to all authorized community stakeholders through a single sign-on portal or EHR interface.
- Full HIE compliance for Meaningful Use stages 1, 2, 3 and beyond.
- Cost-effective onboarding services to state level exchanges.
- Public health reporting services.
- Enhanced communication between hospitals and physicians offices.
