Health information exchange policies of 11 diverse health systems and the associated impact on volume of exchange.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Provider organizations increasingly have the ability to exchange patient health information electronically. Organizational health information exchange (HIE) policy decisions can impact the extent to which external information is readily available to providers, but this relationship has not been well studied.

Objective

Our objective was to examine the relationship between electronic exchange of patient health information across organizations and organizational HIE policy decisions. We focused on 2 key decisions: whether to automatically search for information from other organizations and whether to require HIE-specific patient consent.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective time series analysis of the effect of automatic querying and the patient consent requir

SUBMITTER: Downing NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7654085 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature