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Report: State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Has Produced Some Successes, Yet Challenges to HIE Development Continue

Healthcare Informatics: Federal efforts to promote state health information exchanges has resulted in some gains, yet adoption and use varies heavily by state and many opportunities to expand remain, according to a recent report commissioned by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provided $564 million to ONC to enable rapid development of health information exchange (HIE) across the nation. Through the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement (State HIE), organizations in all 56 states and territories received funding during the four-year program.

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