scholarly journals Leveraging Health Information Exchange to Improve Population Health Reporting Processes: Lessons in Using a Collaborative-Participatory Design Process

Author(s):  
Debra Revere ◽  
Brian E. Dixon ◽  
Rebecca Hills ◽  
Jennifer L. Williams ◽  
Shaun J. Grannis
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmen Williams ◽  
Saurabh Rahurkar ◽  
Brian Dixon ◽  
Shaun Grannis ◽  
Titus Schleyer

BACKGROUND Community Health Information Exchange (HIEs) organizations were originally designed to support individual patient care, but their ability to aggregate health and non-health information about populations offers significant opportunities. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to discuss and illustrate current opportunities for HIEs using the status and trajectory of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), the oldest and one of the largest HIEs in the United States. METHODS We reviewed the research and clinical applications the INPC has developed and introduced numerous innovations and initiatives. RESULTS HIEs have the positioning and opportunity to provide highly relevant services in today’s healthcare, and public and population health contexts, such as research-ready data sets, state registry collaborations, data commons, population health applications, clinical applications, nationwide interoperability, and support of accountable care organizations. CONCLUSIONS Community HIEs can help advance the practice of medicine and population health and help shift sick-focused to health-focused care. To fully take advantage of their potential, community HIEs must continue to innovate and evolve.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. e100241
Author(s):  
Job Nyangena ◽  
Rohini Rajgopal ◽  
Elizabeth Adhiambo Ombech ◽  
Enock Oloo ◽  
Humphrey Luchetu ◽  
...  

BackgroundThe use of digital technology in healthcare promises to improve quality of care and reduce costs over time. This promise will be difficult to attain without interoperability: facilitating seamless health information exchange between the deployed digital health information systems (HIS).ObjectiveTo determine the maturity readiness of the interoperability capacity of Kenya’s HIS.MethodsWe used the HIS Interoperability Maturity Toolkit, developed by MEASURE Evaluation and the Health Data Collaborative’s Digital Health and Interoperability Working Group. The assessment was undertaken by eHealth stakeholder representatives primarily from the Ministry of Health’s Digital Health Technical Working Group. The toolkit focused on three major domains: leadership and governance, human resources and technology.ResultsMost domains are at the lowest two levels of maturity: nascent or emerging. At the nascent level, HIS activities happen by chance or represent isolated, ad hoc efforts. An emerging maturity level characterises a system with defined HIS processes and structures. However, such processes are not systematically documented and lack ongoing monitoring mechanisms.ConclusionNone of the domains had a maturity level greater than level 2 (emerging). The subdomains of governance structures for HIS, defined national enterprise architecture for HIS, defined technical standards for data exchange, nationwide communication network infrastructure, and capacity for operations and maintenance of hardware attained higher maturity levels. These findings are similar to those from interoperability maturity assessments done in Ghana and Uganda.


2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1672-1679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Furukawa ◽  
Jennifer King ◽  
Vaishali Patel ◽  
Chun-Ju Hsiao ◽  
Julia Adler-Milstein ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Ross ◽  
B. K. Mellis ◽  
B. L. Beaty ◽  
L. M. Schilling ◽  
A. J. Davidson ◽  
...  

SummaryObjective: Assess the interest in and preferences of ambulatory practitioners in HIE.Background: Health information exchange (HIE) may improve the quality and efficiency of care. Identifying the value proposition for smaller ambulatory practices may help those practices engage in HIE.Methods: Survey of primary care and specialist practitioners in the State of Colorado.Results: Clinical data were commonly (always [2%], often [29%] or sometimes [49%]) missing during clinic visits. Of 12 data types proposed as available through HIE, ten were considered “extremely useful” by most practitioners. “Clinical notes/consultation reports,” “diagnosis or problem lists,” and “hospital discharge summaries” were considered the three most useful data types. Interest in EKG reports, diagnosis/problem lists, childhood immunizations, and discharge summaries differed among ambulatory practitioner groups (primary care, obstetrics-gynecology, and internal medicine subspecialties).Conclusion: Practitioners express strong interest in most of the data types, but opinions differed by specialties on what types were most important. All providers felt that a system that provided all data types would be useful. These results support the potential benefit of HIE in ambulatory practices.


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