The potential impact of community-based HIEs

My latest at the AcademyHealth blog:

I’m a huge supporter of information technology. I’ve spent almost my entire career creating systems in order to improve outcomes for pediatric patients. But that doesn’t mean I don’t carry a healthy skepticism for how much of a difference HIT is actually making in practice. The evidence for how much health information exchanges are impacting care is somewhat equivocal as well. A new study is being discussed as showing HIEs can significantly reduce hospital admissions. It’s worth reviewing in detail. “The potential for community-based health information exchange systems to reduce hospital readmissions“…

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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