Chapter 6: Health Information Exchange

Chapter 6 discusses the importance of sharing and exchanging health information. Chapter sections include: Introduction, The History of US health information network initiatives, Interoperability, Impact of the HITECH Act on HIE, Health Information Organizations, Status of US HIE, HIE concerns, HIE resources, Recommended Reading and Future Trends

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Publication Date: Feb 11, 2014
Language: English
Category: Science & Medicine
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Robert E. Hoyt, By (author): William R. Hersh

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Health Information Exchange Interoperability HIE

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About Robert E Hoyt

Robert (Bob) Hoyt MD FACP has practiced internal medicine for over 35 years both in private practice and the military. He uses his clinical and medical research experience to critically analyze informatics literature. He along with his wife Ann Yoshihashi MD, created the first edition of the textbook in 2007 and the textbook is now in its seventh edition. Dr. William Hersh (OHSU) is the new co-editor for the seventh edition. Dr. Hersh is Professor and Chair of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU. He has a long history of lecturing and publishing in informatics. He is now the author of multiple chapters in the seventh edition. The link below will take you to his blog Informatics Professor Bob Muenchen MS PSAT is the new Co-Editor of Introduction to Biomedical Data Science. He is an ASA accredited professional statistician and the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users, and co-author of R for Stata Users. He is also the creator of r4stats.com. See his bio in below link

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