Question

What is the Role of Health Information Exchanges in Managed Care and Utilization review in healthcare organization. How does it benefits the patient

Answer 1

Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Health Information Exchanges provide the capability to electronically move clinical information among disparate health care information systems and maintain the meaning of the information being exchanged.

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

Benefits the patient

Appropriate, timely sharing of vital patient information can better inform decision making at the point of care and allow providers to

1.Avoid readmission

2. Avoid medicine errors

3 Improve diagnoses

4. Decrease duplicate testing

If a practice has successfully incorporated faxing patient information into their business process flow, they might question why they should transition to electronic health information exchange. Many benefits exist with information exchange regardless of the means of which it transferred. However, the value of electronically exchanging is the standardization of data.