Health information exchanges (HIEs) are valuable in the emergency department for providers, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College revealed in a recent study.
Health information exchanges (HIEs) are valuable in the emergency department for providers, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College revealed in a recent study.
For the study, published in Applied Clinical Informatics, researchers looked at claims information collected from seven emergency departments in Rochester, N.Y. They found that physicians and other practitioners who had access to patient data were better able to avoid hospitalizing patients who didn’t need inpatient care.
