Disadvantages Of Healthcare Information Exchange

Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) enables health care providers to transfer their patient data electronically among disparate health information system. That information includes patient lab result, doctors note, admission summary, medical history, and discharge summary. Each patient and health care providers have their own access to these online portals for various purpose including appointment, secure messaging, and other health related notification. HIE help to deliver the accurate health information to right person. According to HealthIT (2014) following are some of the advantages of HIE.
- Stimulates consumer education and patient’s involvement for their own health.
- Increase efficiency by eliminating unnecessary paperwork
- Increase the public health reporting and monitoring process
- Provides the backbone of technical infrastructure for leverage by national and State-level initiatives
- Provides a basic level of interoperability among
Unless patient chose to opt out, all the patient health information will be available through the HIE to the doctors for treatment. If the patient chooses opt out then all the patient health information will be with their providers only and it will not share across CRISP. For the electronic health care transactions, Maryland accept health care transaction only from MHCC certified EHNS. Maryland health care organization used the electronic health record (EHR) and in 2012 the office-base physician EHR adoption rate in Maryland was approximately 49.2 percent (MHCC, 2016). Similarly, Maryland allows use of telehealth in certain part of the state and running 3 different projects to provide the service. From 2012, Maryland use electronic preauthorizing benchmarks, which aim to create administrative efficiencies in the preauthorization process by eliminating paper-based processes and enabling the electronic submission of preauthorization