Momentum returns for health information exchanges
Momentum returns for health information exchanges
“We’ve studied this enough. Now we need to act.”
Claudia Williams, CEO of HIE Manifest MedEx, seen here at the whiteboard during a brainstorming session.
A few years ago, health information exchanges faced yawning obsolescence. Now the COVID-19 pandemic has rocketed these information-sharing networks back to relevancy.
The pandemic transformed the perception of HIEs and fostered an appreciation of their value, spotlighting the importance of sharing population-level data quickly, with HIEs across the country crunching data to answer hospital capacity questions, predict the virus’ spread and, now, determine vaccine allocation and eligibility.