The potential for community-based health information exchange systems to reduce hospital readmissions.
Hospital readmissions are common, costly, and offer opportunities for utilization reduction. Electronic health information exchange (HIE) systems may help prevent readmissions by improving access to clinical data by ambulatory providers after discharge from the hospital.
Author(s): Vest, Joshua R, Kern, Lisa M, Silver, Michael D, Kaushal, Rainu, ,
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002760