“As the HITECH Act points out, the main benefits of electronic health record (EHR) adoption for individual health care organizations are improved efficiency and care quality, as well as reduced health care costs. The real kicker, though, is when records are linked through health information exchange (HIE).
When this happens, patient information is no longer confined to data silos within individual institutions. If the dream of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) comes true, it can be securely pushed to physicians, laboratories, health insurance companies and government agencies around the country.”
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Stan Gibson, SearchHealthIT, June 2011
