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Healthy Partnerships: HIEs and Public Health

Brochure defining the worthy aims for public health involvement in health information exchange. A product of the InformationLinks project.

Abstract:
Health Information Exchanges ~ in which healthcare stakeholders form a collaborative network to share health information ~ can help resolve health care costs and medical errors. However, public health is not always involved in the exchange. Does public health data add value to the HIE? Can a partnership between physicians and public health strengthen healthcare? The inclusion of public health agencies and public health data in the design of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) offers long-term benefits for individual and community health. Consider the potential for this Healthy Partnership.

Published: Thursday, July 05, 2007
Author: Public Health Informatics Institute
Pages: 6

Topics

• Child Health Information Systems
  
• Health Information Exchange
  

Programs

• HRSA Connections Community of Practice