Recently efforts to digitize the nation's health care system have driven the creation of legal entities known as “Health Information Exchanges” (HIEs), which are regionally-based groups of providers and/or hospitals that have contracted with one another – sometimes under the requirements of a state law – to electronically exchange protected health information (PHI) on shared patients at the point of care. To learn more about what HIEs are able to do, including benefits to providers, patients, and policy-makers, please read our Fast Facts below.
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