Description:
A small rural community hospital implemented a combined inpatient and outpatient EHR, along with a community health information exchange (HIE), to enhance patient care and improve data reporting between providers.

Speaker Information:
Mark Anderson, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, CEO, AC Group

Objectives:

• Outline how to create a community data exchange between multiple care providers;
• Summarize how a community of providers, creating a community exchange application, can help define a new level of quality of care throughout the entire community;
• Describe how patients were able to share clinical information with multiple providers in a secure environment designed to reduce duplicate data entry by 83 percent; and
• List true barriers to a community HIE and what we learned during the implementation rollout.