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  • The study examined physicians' views on the importance and quality of patient information available through Health Information Exchange (HIE) compared to their actual usage of this information.
  • Despite physicians rating most data types as highly important and accessible, they frequently used only a few specific types of information—mainly diagnoses, medication lists, and allergies—prior to HIE implementation.
  • The findings indicate that just having valuable and high-quality information does not guarantee its regular use, suggesting that the early benefits of HIE may be concentrated on improving access to select data categories.

Article Abstract

This study compared physicians' perceptions of the importance, accessibility, and quality of different types of patient information that could potentially be available with Health Information Exchange (HIE) with how they use patient information. The results showed that while the physicians rated the majority of 11 data types as very important, accessible, and of high quality, they regularly used only a few data types before having access to a new HIE system. The three major types of information regularly used by the physicians were diagnoses, current medication lists, and allergy information. This study provides new data about how opinions on the importance of information relate to reported information use. Our findings suggest that having important, accessible, and high quality information does not necessarily lead to routine use, but that much of the early value of HIE may lie in improving access to a few data areas.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041432PMC

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