Are HIEs Leading to Competition or Cooperation?

Posted by Michelle Blackmer • 2 June 2010 •

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Are HIEs leading to more competition or cooperation?

Last week, I wrote about our Executive Summit roundtable discussion, but that was just 45 minutes of the day. Throughout the day, leading healthcare organizations debated and discussed Health Information Exchange strategies, opinions and perceptions.

Throughout the day I jotted down a list of the most controversial and inspiring comments made by CIOs and Physician Executives. Here they are:

1) By 2020 we will have a shortage of Primary Care Physicians; we must enable PCPs to become facilitators

2) We need to make data smart!

3) EMR is table stakes; it’s not the end game

4) No one has best practices in security defined yet

5) Meds and allergy information are nice to have … but documents at the point of care = increased adoption

6) As soon as you provide access to data that a care provider would not otherwise have had and they save a life – you have a religious user

7) The “P” in HIPAA stands for portability

8) Patients need assurance more than they need intervention

9) Medical Home is appealing but hard!

10) HIE will not differentiate; the service provided will

Tell me what you think. Is HIE increasing the competitive nature of your hospital or removing competitive boundaries around information sharing?

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