Main description:

Health Information Exchange: Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems, Second Edition, now fully updated, is a practical guide on how to understand, manage and make use of a health information exchange infrastructure, which moves patient-centered information within the health care system. The book informs and guides the development of new infrastructures as well as the management of existing and expanding infrastructures across the globe. Sections explore the reasons for the health information exchange (HIE) infrastructures, how to manage them, examines the key drivers of HIE, and barriers to their widespread use.

In addition, the book explains the underlying technologies and methods for conducting HIE across communities as well as nations. Finally, the book explains the principles of governing an organization that chiefly moves protected health information around. The text unravels the complexities of HIE and provides guidance for those who need to access HIE data and support operations.

Contents:

Section 1: Health Information Exchange Fundamentals 1. What is Health Information Exchange? 2. Health Information Exchange as a Profession 3. Policies and Incentives for Adoption: Towards Broader Use

Section 2: Organizational Aspects of Managing Health Information Exchange 4. Engaging and Sustaining Stakeholders: Towards Governance 5. Managing the Business of Health Information Exchange: Towards Sustainability 6. Managing Privacy, Confidentiality, and Risk: Towards Trust 7. Managing Threats to Health Data and Information: Towards Security

Section 3: Technical Architecture and Building Blocks 8. Architectures and Approaches to Manage the Evolving Health Information Infrastructure 9. Syntactic Interoperability and the Role of Syntactic Standards in Health Information Exchange 10. Standardizing Health Care Data across an Enterprise 11. Shared, Longitudinal Health Records for Clinical and Population Health 12. Client Registries: Identifying and Linking Patients 13. Facility Registries: Metadata for Where Care Is Delivered 14. Health Worker Registries: Managing the Health Care Workforce 15. Finance and Insurance Services: Supporting Achievement of Universal Healthcare

Section 4: Impacting Health Care Delivery and Outcomes 16. The Evidence Base for HIE 17. Measuring the Value of HIE 18. Leveraging HIE to Facilitate Large Scale Data Analytics 19. Incorporating Social, Genomic, and Environmental Determinants into HIE 20. Cross-border HIE to Achieve World Health Outcomes 21. Future Directions for Health Information Exchange

Section 5: Case Studies in Health Information Exchange 22. The Indiana Health Information Exchange 23. Using Health Information Exchange to Support Public Health Activities in Western New York: A Case Study 24. Creating a 21st Century Health Information Technology Infrastructure: New York's Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers Capital Grant Program 25. Use of HIEs for Value-Based Care Delivery: A Case Study of Maryland's HIE 26. Return on Investment: The Case of the Social Security Administration 27. HIE-Enhanced Care Coordination: Implementation and Evaluation of Event Notification Services in the Veterans Health Administration 28. A Resilient Infrastructure to Facilitate Digital Health: The Case of HIE in Denmark 29. National Health Information Systems: Exchange in Multiple African Nations 30. Health Information Exchange in Taiwan: Multiple Layers to Facilitate Broad Access and Use of Data for Clinical and Population Health 31. Israel's National HIE Network Ofek: A Robust Infrastructure for Clinical and Population Health 32. Bringing HIE to the Middle East and North Africa: The Case of Malaffi in Abu Dhabi