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Top Ten Tech Trends: "Survivor: Edition HIE"--Can Statewide HIEs Achieve Sustainability?

Healthcare Informatics: Can health information exchanges (HIEs) survive the present moment? The question might seem overly simplistic, but the reality, as knowledgeable observers note, is that broad-based, and particularly statewide, HIEs are indeed failing or faltering across the country. Indeed, many public and semi-public statewide HIEs are struggling these days, in the wake of the dwindling of federal and state grants to support them. What are industry observers seeing? Largely this: that many of the statewide and regional HIEs created with wonderfully high-minded intent, but without a hardheaded business focus on long-term sustainability, are finding it difficult to make ends meet as the grant money begins to wither.

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