Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Military healthcare initiatives, including the common EHR and virtual-first care, are discussed by Dr. Brian Lein, DHA assistant director of healthcare administration, Bill Tinston, FEHRM director, and Holly Joers PEO DHMS program executive officer.

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement will accelerate the move toward large-scale interoperability, says Michael Palantoni, vice president of platform and data services at athenahealth.

It leverages population-level data on stroke patients from more than 10,000 healthcare facilities connected to the state HIE to track stroke incidence by area and identify demographic and other trends.

The aspirational model is intended to serve as a starting point and a path forward for healthcare, health data and government leaders to follow in creating HDUs, says the consortium of health data organizations. 

Healthcare organizations including ONC, Advocate Health, Mt. Sinai, Tufts Medicine, UC Davis Health and the VA are participating, and will share implementation tips and best practices to enable broader adoption of the interoperability standard.

An El Paso-based health information exchange looked at how centralized data was of value to patient outcomes and improved provider stakeholder engagement and growth.

HDUs enable specific, defined use cases, with extra protections to ensure patient privacy and protection.

Three real-world data projects will be presented by the National Institutes of Health's Sarah Warner, Premier's Ning Rosenthal and Myla Maloney, and the University of Washington School of Medicine's Dr. Ferric Fang at HIMSS23.

At HIMSS23, Evelyn Gallego, CEO and founder of EMI Advisors, will highlight with fellow panelists the opportunity to develop a standardized data exchange to improve maternal care coordination and planning.

dbMotion is already live in southwestern Sydney in New South Wales.