When hospitals share patient records, emergency patients benefit, study suggests Date: January 24, 2014 Source: University of Michigan Health System ...

Physicians who had access to a health information exchange (HIE) ordered fewer lab tests for patients with prior test results after the HIE was formed than they did previously, ...

A study released by Harvard researchers that concluded that physicians who have computerized access to patients' test results are more likely to order additional lab and imaging tests has a new ...

To gauge hospital and physician involvement in health information exchange initiatives, Black Book polled 2,012 providers and 2,300 payers that use HIEs and 4,100 prospective HIE users.

The University of Texas at Austin has added a health information exchange laboratory to its health IT certificate program, with assistance from HIE software and electronic health record vendors.

We investigated whether pathological findings on MRI after HT treatment predicted short-term neuromotor outcome in HIE infants. Methods: Between May 2006 and December 2009, 69 infants were treated ...

Challenges to electronic data exchange include competing priorities, managing multiple funding streams, lack of qualified staff and inadequate support from EHR and HIE vendors, the surveys found. 4.