HIE
Health Information Exchange (HIE)
What is HIE?
Health Information Exchange allows health care professionals and patients to appropriately access and securely share a patient’s medical information electronically. There are many health care delivery scenarios driving the technology behind the different forms of health information exchange available today.
HIE Benefits
Sharing electronic patient information enables providers to:
• Access and confidentially share patients’ vital medical history, no matter where patients are receiving care—specialists’ offices, labs, or emergency rooms
• Provide safer, more effective care tailored to patients’ unique medical needs