Healthcare Information Exchange and Interoperability (HIEI) is technology that enables the electronic flow of information among medical organizations.

While individual organizations are making progress in digitizing administrative transactions and providing clinical information to clinicians, the exchange of this type of information among organizations is nascent. To determine the value in adopting HIEI, we examined transactions among the main stakeholders in patient care and projected the value for each, at different levels of sophistication.

We found that moving to standardized HIEI would deliver $77.8 billion in annual savings in the United States.

Other conclusions include:

• Standardized HIEI provides better returns than non-standardized HIEI
• Providers would realize annual new returns of $33.5 billion with full implementation of standardized HIEI
• Other stakeholders, such as labs, payers, and pharmacies, would also benefit from standardized HIEI

The Report

The full report on HIEI examines in detail the impact of the electronic flow of healthcare information and its role in improving patient safety and the quality of care. It measures the importance of seamless interoperability among vital sectors of the US healthcare delivery system.

The report, The Value of Healthcare Information Exchange and Interoperability (HIEI), includes:

• Explanation of HIEI benefits for providers, payers, independent laboratories, radiology centers, pharmacies, and public health departments
• Comparison of benefits and costs of different levels of HIEI sophistication
• Projections of HIEI value to individual providers, other organizations, and the nation as a whole
• Detailed calculations of value and the evidence upon which they are based

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