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Using Health Information Exchange Data Boosts Quality Reporting

Health information exchange data integration impacted 19 percent of patients in 42 of the study’s 53 participating healthcare organizations.

Health Information Exchange Quality Reporting

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By Christopher Jason

- Integrating health information exchange (HIE) data with EHR data provides a more accurate and complete view of quality reporting than patient data from one hospital source, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

Health systems can improve patient care, report performance, and healthcare provider reimbursement by utilizing clinical quality measures. Since EHR adoption has significantly increased over the last decade, healthcare facilities must develop and submit EHR quality reports.

Inaccurate or fragmented patient data can have a significant impact on patient safety and data completeness, interoperability, and data accuracy are major barriers of quality data reporting.