- Discuss the impetus for health information exchange (HIE) in the United States.
- Describe basic HIE organizational structures, architectures, and services.
- Reinforce the need for data stewardship in HIE services.
- Identify the state, regional, and local activities in achieving benefits and overcoming challenges for HIE organizations.
- Describe the federal government's concept of a nationwide health information network.
Identify current federal initiatives aimed at promoting electronic health information exchange.
Write a paper that includes the following:
- Explain the importance of information technology (IT) in patient transitions in different types of healthcare settings.
- Provide some insight into the status of the federal government initiatives that are underway (regional health information networks, electronic health records that are available from anywhere, etc.) with the goal of creating a health information exchange in the United States.
- Finally, knowing the status of the NHIN and initiatives, use critical thinking to analyze how your primary healthcare provider compares.
- Review the meaningful use implementation scenarios at the following site: Source: S&I Framework: Scenarios. Retrieved from
https://www.siframework.org/scenarios.html
- Using one of these scenarios, describe a specific example of how your provider's office is state-of-the-art.
- Describe a scenario where the office is also lagging behind. Using that scenario, identify the primary obstacles the office faces, describe several potential solutions to this problem, and identify the one that would best fit your provider's office.