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Research: HIE Policies Such as Automatic Query, Patient Consent, Increase Volume of Data Exchanged

Healthcare Informatics: Automatic querying and limited consent requirements are organizational health information exchange (HIE) policy decisions that impact the volume of exchange, and ultimately the information available to providers, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine, University of Michigan, and elsewhere, looked at data on organization-level HIE policy decisions and their impact on HIE volume from a diverse set of healthcare systems using the same electronic health record (EHR)-based HIE platform. The study focused on clinical summary exchange over a two-year period. The researchers wanted to answer:

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