- 33 percent of multi-provider networks and hospital systems are considering private HIEs for more standardized sharing of patient data.
- 82 percent of all payers and providers agree that an operational national public HIE is at least a decade off.
- 92 percent of physicians, 81 percent of hospitals, and 94 percent of insurers/payers remain meaningful unconnected, in regards to intelligent interoperability.
- Nearly all healthcare organizations, 98 percent, believe that private, community or regional HIEs are the preferred choice to comprehensively achieve accountable care organization deliverables
"Private exchanges will continue to outpace public HIEs as organizations are exploring how they will effectively aggregate data to support their ACO efforts", said Doug Brown, managing partner of Black Book, in a news release. "Eventually, given meaningful use, the industry can expect to see connections between private and public exchanges emerging for the purpose of sharing public health data and to support the portability of medical records. But there is an obvious challenge of whether public, regional and state exchanges will still be around to connect to when that happens, or if these private exchanges and EHR vendors will instead connect stakeholders directly to a national exchange.”
"That’s how we really are spending a lot of time and energy and money connecting together things that are not standard and getting the EHR data into HIEs is still a significant barrier," he said.
