Health Information Exchanges
Moving Clinical Data, Safely and Effectively for Patient-Centered Care
Digital Edition, November 1, 2011
When Corey Wilson, M.D., chair of emergency medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee, spoke about his experiences with the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE), he had the following to say: “It gives us immediate information that we can use at the bedside, and information, for an emergency physician, is gold.”
Formal organizations are now emerging to provide both form and function for health information exchanges efforts on both independent and governmental/regional levels. This special report will bring you up-to-speed on these efforts.
Current Issue
Looking to build better care coordination, health systems are buying physician groups in droves. Making the deal work, however, requires careful management on the I.T. front.
