{"id":3054,"date":"2012-06-25T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2012-06-25T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:00:51","slug":"health-care-triple-digit-growth-in-hie-spending-predicted-for-next-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/health-care-triple-digit-growth-in-hie-spending-predicted-for-next-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care: Triple Digit Growth in HIE Spending Predicted for Next Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

While much of the discussion and debate around health care modernization and reform has focused on Electronic Health Records, a very related and important topic is that of Health Information Exchanges (HIE). \u00a0HIE transmit and exchange health care data among facilities, providers, hospitals, and health information organizations. \u00a0The HIE initiative in the US tries to create a national standard \u00a0for transmission, interoperability, security and confidentiality.<\/p>\n

Components of the HIE initiative in the US include Health Information Technology (HIT) infrastructure and the National Health Information Network (NHIN). \u00a0A national HIE program will need to address many challenges which include scalability, reliability, trustworthiness, financially sustainable, and secure.<\/p>\n

Doug Brown,\u00a0\u00a0Senior Partner at Black Book<\/a>, said <\/a>that\u00a0“the current driving forces of HIE adoption are clearly apparent: accountable care implementation, meaningful use implementations, the need for care coordination, outcome based reimbursement challenges, available funding, and opportunities for regional stakeholder participation.”<\/div>\n
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A survey from Black Book on HIEs found that 80 percent of US hospitals and 97 percent of physician providers today are unconnected to any kind of HIE technology. \u00a0But the report expects that to change dramatically over the next few years, predicting triple digit growth.<\/div>\n
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Other results of the report are as follows:<\/div>\n