“Now there has been a lot of fussing about just what constitutes an HIE as well as the bigger issue of how do the feds insure that HIEs of one form or another are in place to support the MU criteria for information exchange. Looking at the slides that the HIE Workgroup used for this meeting, it appears that they were attempting to first educate the broader committee on just what an HIE may be, what types of data may flow through an HIE in support of MU criteria and finally some recommendations to consider for HIEs to support overarching HHS objectives.”
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John Moore, Chilmark Research, 30 July 2009

