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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Health Information Exchange (HIE)"”.
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Extended Evaluation: Unraveling Medicaid Patient Trajectories and Improving Intervention Candidate Identification
… to conduct an analysis of the Camden Coalition’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) data to gain deeper insights into the trajectories of Medicaid patients through the health system. Recognizing the complex challenges of social determinants of health, this study seeks to find patterns and …
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Does Health Information Technology Improve Hospital Process Measures?
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) incentivizes hospitals to utilize health information technology (HIT), including electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchange (HIE). Hospitals have responded by increasing the implementation …
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Understanding the Current State of Health Information Exchange in Long-Term Care Homes
… thesis aimed to examine the current state of health information exchange (HIE) processes within the Canadian long-term care (LTC) setting and identify opportunities to improve these processes through the proliferation of health information technology (HIT). Methods: The first study undertook a …
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Using information-sharing exchange techniques from the private sector to enhance information sharing between domestic intelligence organizations
… intelligence organizations have challenges in information sharing have resulted in incomplete information. Since 2001 state and local governments in the United States have formed information sharing hubs called fusion centers which request information from peer fusion centers as well as sharing …
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Implementing health information exchange with searchable encryption
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is an infrastructure that facilitates exchange of electronic health records between healthcare organizations. Because medical records are highly sensitive data subject to various federal and local regulation, in addition to company policies, it is imperative to …
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Essays in Health Economics
This dissertation comprises three essays in health economics. The first paper studies how imperfect electronic health record (EHR) system compatibility, or interoperability, affects patients. My coauthors, Rebekah Dix and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, and I find that improved EHR interoperability between …
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Systematic Exploration of Associations Between Select Neural and Dermal Diseases in a Large Healthcare Database
… especially ultra-large databases that leverage health information exchange (HIE) systems to gather data from multiple sources. Promising as this process is, there have been challenges analyzing big data in healthcare due to big data attributes, mainly regarding volume, variety, and velocity. …
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Health Information Exchange Use in Primary Care
… has invested over $40 billion in digitizing the health care system, yet the anticipated gains in improved care coordination, quality, and cost savings remain largely unrealized. This is due in part to limited interoperability and low rates of health information exchange (HIE) use, which can …
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Using information technology to exchange health information among healthcare providers : measuring usage and understanding value
Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic exchange of health information among healthcare institutions - has been projected to hold enormous promise as an antidote to the fragmented healthcare delivery system in the United States. After decades of mostly failed attempts, we still do not …
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Prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha: a contemporary review of services 20 years later
… The programme evolved alongside the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines; in 2013 the recommended guidelines in the province was WHO Option B+( life-long antiretroviral therapy (ART) irrespective of CD4 count, and exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life). Alongside the …
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Facilitating health information exchange in low- and middle-income countries: conceptual considerations, stakeholders perspectives and deployment strategies illustrated through an in-depth case study of Pakistan
Background Health information exchange (HIE) may help healthcare professionals and policymakers make informed decisions to improve patient and population health outcomes. There is, however, limited uptake of HIE in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While resource constraints are an …