PPV: Health information exchanges on the rise to share data, improve care
HIM Connection, January 8, 2008
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In today's world of heightened privacy and security, a request to share personal medical information is not a question that many people take lightly.
More than 750,000 patients in Tennessee and Virginia faced this question in 2006 when CareSpark, a health information exchange (HIE), sought their buy-in to allow two large community-based health systems with a total of 16 hospitals to share their medical data.
Editor's note: For more information on HIEs, click here.
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