Health Information Exchange Assignment
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Running head: HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGEHEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGEName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
1HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGEImportance of Health information exchange in Accountable care organizations and publichealth careIntroductionHealth information refers to those information, evidences and data that determines thehealth and facilitates policy making. The procedure required to obtain the health information anduse this health information in the policy making can be described as the public health monitoringand reporting. This paper will give an idea about how the health information exchange via electronicallyhelps the members of the accountable care unit to disseminate the necessary patient informationamong the team members to provide a reliable safe and combined care to the patients.Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are team of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare professionals who voluntarily come together to give a coordinated care to the Medicarepatients (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2013). Coordinated care team involvesmany doctors and nurses; hence it is necessary to disseminate the patient information betweenthe members of the team to provide a coordinated care (Centers for Medicare and MedicaidServices, 2013). The health information exchange permits the doctors and the nurses and other healthprofessionals to access and share the medical information of a patient electronically. This helpsto increase the speed of the delivery, saves time and cost. Accountable care organizations are thenew payment and the delivery innovations that have come up in the United States (Hacker &
2HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGEWalker, 2013). These organizations involve the network of organizations that comprises ofdoctors, hospitals and nurses for the care of the defined population of patients. The paper aimsto discuss about the roles of the health information exchange via technologies in Accountablecare organizations in the United States. Health information exchange (HIE) plays an importantrole in the coordination of the various aspects of care of a patient (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017).The Accountable care model is diffusing country wide and it has been reported that thedissemination of the health care information can improve the health population and can reducethe cost of the health care. Health information can be useful in the standardization of the clinicalwork force, management of the medications, reduction of the medication errors, and improvingthe health care by the management of the chronic illness (Hacker & Walker, 2013). Transparency in a health care setting involving a multidisciplinary team can bemaintained by a health information technology. Starting from the recording of the doctor's orderto the medications all can be disseminated electronically (Hacker & Walker, 2013). The health information exchange services in United States include a statewide or a regionwise health information exchange organizations. The service includes a repository of the healthrecords of the patients with interfaces with the participating organizations (Hersh et al., 2015). A record locator services (RLS) having a master piece index and an integrated machine,automated notification service, Health information exchange services (HISPs), directory services(Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017).In general three forms of health information exchange system is followed in this initiative. Theyare -
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