Applications of health information exchange information to public health practice
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Applications of health information exchange information to public health practice. / Kierkegaard, Patrick; Kaushal, Rainu; Vest, Joshua R.
AMIA Annual symposium proceedings. American Medical Informatics Association, 2014. p. 795-804 (AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, Vol. 2014).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Applications of health information exchange information to public health practice
AU - Kierkegaard, Patrick
AU - Kaushal, Rainu
AU - Vest, Joshua R.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Health information exchange (HIE) can support several aspects of public health practice by increasing the availability, timeliness, and comprehensiveness individual-level patient information. The potential benefits to disease monitoring, disaster response, and other public health activities served as an important justification for the US’ investments in HIE. After several years of HIE implementation and funding, we sought to determine if any of the anticipated benefits of exchange participation were accruing to state and local public health practitioners participating in five different exchanges. Using qualitative interviews and template analyses, we identified public health efforts and activities that were improved by participation in HIE. We derived the codes for the template analysis through a literature review. HIE supported public health activities consistent with expectations in the literature. However, no single department realized the all the potential benefits of HIE identified. These findings suggest ways to improve HIE usage in public health.
AB - Health information exchange (HIE) can support several aspects of public health practice by increasing the availability, timeliness, and comprehensiveness individual-level patient information. The potential benefits to disease monitoring, disaster response, and other public health activities served as an important justification for the US’ investments in HIE. After several years of HIE implementation and funding, we sought to determine if any of the anticipated benefits of exchange participation were accruing to state and local public health practitioners participating in five different exchanges. Using qualitative interviews and template analyses, we identified public health efforts and activities that were improved by participation in HIE. We derived the codes for the template analysis through a literature review. HIE supported public health activities consistent with expectations in the literature. However, no single department realized the all the potential benefits of HIE identified. These findings suggest ways to improve HIE usage in public health.
M3 - Article in proceedings
T3 - AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings
SP - 795
EP - 804
BT - AMIA Annual symposium proceedings
PB - American Medical Informatics Association
T2 - AMIA 2014 Annual Symposium
Y2 - 15 November 2014 through 19 November 2014
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