Health Information Exchange Organization (HIEO)

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Health Information Exchange Organization (HIEO)
Identify and develop a methodology to collect data that will guide or influence strategic
and/or organizational management
Since its establishment, the Health Information Exchange Organization (HIEO) has been
doing a commendable in promoting the sharing of patients’ data by different healthcare facilities
within the entire healthcare system. However, the organization has not been able to accomplish
all its objectives because of the identified challenges. To overcome this, the organization needs
to improve its data-collection mechanisms. This can be done by having a central data-collection
point composed of well-trained statisticians, information technicians, and Information
Technology (IT) experts (Furukawa, King, Patel, Hsiao, Adler-Milstein & Jha, 2014). However,
to measure the data quality and EMPI, the personnel should use appropriate software to enhance
transparency, reliability, and validity of the data as well as identify and address any loopholes
like duplication of data that might be experienced.
The Individuals/ Departments that should be involved and define what each of their roles
Quality of data is what HIEO aims at achieving. To accomplish that and overcome any
hurdles in its operations, HIEO should involve the Enterprise Data Integrity Team. It should
be a diverse team made up of participants from different departments including Finance
Department, Nursing Department, Physician Departments, and the Record-Keeping personnel.
Each of these units should be directly involved in the data-sharing initiatives because they
have important contributions to make (Moher, Glasziou, Chalmers, Nasser, Bossuyt Korevaar
& Boutron, 2016). For example, the Finance Department should provide information on
insurance and money matters. The members of the nursing and physician sections should
provide information on the patient’s medical history, past illnesses and treatments. The health

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records personnel should also be included because they can avail comprehensive and reliable
data on the patients from their respective facilities.
Define the purpose and the value to the organization of an Enterprise Data Integrity team
The Enterprise Data Integrity team is a group of representatives carefully chosen from
each of the HIEO network partners to act as one body uniting the entire system. Its purpose is
that it can be relied upon to promote the collection and storage of accurate, transparent, and
high-quality data from each of the healthcare facilities whose information is polled together
(Ancker, Miller, Patel, Kaushal & with the HITEC Investigators, 2013). However, to effectively
discharge its role, the team should be accountable to the HIEO Information Governance
Committee.
Explain the Enterprise Data Integrity team’s accountability within the enterprise
To be accountable, it means that the Enterprise Data Integrity team must be answerable
to the HIEO Information Governance Committee. Meaning, it should discharge all its
assigned duties and obligations responsibly. It should collaborate with each of department to
get a pool of transparent, accurate, updated, and valid information that can be relied upon by
the organization to capture details of each and every patient ever served by the healthcare
facilities within the network (Furukawa, King, Patel, Hsiao, Adler-Milstein & Jha, 2014). That
is what it means to be accountable because health records must be accurate for the patients to
get the right care that they deserve.
Create an organizational guideline to measure data quality checks that promote the accuracy
of cross-organizational patient identity matching.