From the article: "A new report from Chilmark Research
shows that the health information exchange market grew more than 40% in the
past year. However, most of that growth came in privately sponsored, enterprise
health information exchanges, rather than in public health information
exchanges that seek to connect providers across regions or states.
The main reasons for the rapid health information exchange growth, according
to Chilmark, are Meaningful Use criteria--which will require interoperability
between systems at transitions of care, such as hospital discharges--and the
impending changes in reimbursement methods that will necessitate greater care
coordination. …
A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
points out that the rapid evolution of enterprise-based health information
exchanges, coupled with the advent of Direct clinical
messaging, has undermined the ability of public health
information exchanges to survive. On the other hand, some
healthcare systems use both private and public health information exchanges.
For example, CentraState Health System, based in Freehold, N.J., has built an
internal health information exchange to connect with its community doctors, but
has also joined Jersey Health Connect, a regional exchange that includes 17
other hospitals." Read more
See also
2012 HIE Market Report: Analysis & Trends of the Health Information Exchange Market, a report prepared by Chilmark Research, May 2012.
Lenert, Leslie, David Sundwell and Michael Edward Lenert. "Shifts in the Architecture of the Nationwide Health information Network." J Am Med Inform Assoc published online January 21, 2012.
