The value of health care information exchange and interoperability.

By Jan Walker, E. Pan, D. Johnston, Julia Adler-Milstein, David W. Bates, Blackford Middleton. Health Affairs, 2005

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Subfields: Health Information Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Molecular Biology

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A Blockchain-Based Approach to Health Information Exchange Networks (2016, background): “Despite evidence that the value of healthcare data exchange is large[5], these issues, described below, remain signiﬁcant barriers.”
Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership (2005, background): “…to improvements in the quality, safety, and patient-centeredness of care, the health care sector remains woefully underinvested in these technologies (Casalino et al., 2003; DOC, 1999; IOM, 2004c; Littlejohns et al., 2003; Pestotnik et al., 1996; Walker et al., 2005; Wang et al., 2003).”
The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future. (2022, background): “Research has documented the potential for Health Information Exchange (HIE) and interoperability to improve care coordination and reduce costs (Walker et al., 2005), and will likely also beneﬁ t public health reporting.”
Clinical decision support systems for improving diagnostic accuracy and achieving precision medicine (2015, background): “Deployment of a mature Level 4 EHR is expected to cost $28 billion dollars per year over a 10 year adoption period [62].”
Personal health records: definitions, benefits, and strategies for overcoming barriers to adoption. (2006, positive): “The greatest area of benefit relates to the chronic disease management, where costs are typically high.(14)”
The use of health information technology in seven nations (2008, background): “Further, there is substantial variation in patients' experiences and outcomes, even among a group of high-income industrialized nations [3]. i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f m e d i c a l i n f o r m a t i c s 7 7 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 848–854 849 [6] [7].”
Blockchain Technology for Healthcare: Facilitating the Transition to Patient-Driven Interoperability (2018, background): “Interoperability can also reduce duplicate clinical interventions like imaging studies or lab orders, decreasing overall health system cost, decreasing waste, and improving patient safety by reducing the exposure to radiation or invasive procedures[16, 17].”
Information security and privacy in healthcare: current state of research (2010, background): “In a recent investigation, Walker et al. (2005) empirically argued that investing in EMR interoperability and establishing a health information exchange could save the industry $77B annually.”
HL7 FHIR: An Agile and RESTful approach to healthcare information exchange (2013, background): “HL7 Version 2 (“v2”) health information exchange standards are a popular choice of local hospital communities for the exchange of healthcare information, including electronic medical record information.”
Social Contagion and Information Technology Diffusion: The Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in U.S. Hospitals (2010, background): “Because IT can alleviate persistent problems such as patient safety concerns, medical errors, and escalating costs, accelerating its diffusion is a crucial public policy issue (Bower 2005, Bush 2004, Pan et al. 2004).”
Research Commentary - The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead (2010, background): “Second, how can we maximize the externalities? This challenge includes data standards and interoperability (Walker et al. 2005), as well as the development of viable business models for HIEs.”