Executive Briefings | October 2, 2014
Without HIE, Participation In ACOs Is Limited
Yesterday, my colleague Sarah Threnhauser profiled the health information exchange (HIE) plan for Los Angeles County’s Integrated Behavioral Health Information System (see HIE – In The Works In Los Angeles). In the article, she also pointed out that the rollout of functional HIEs is not going well, despite the Meaningful Use 2 incentives.
A recent online poll reported in FierceHealthIT further highlighted these difficulties, as 62 accountable care organizations (ACO) reported that access to external data was challenging, and 88 . . .