Health Information Exchange in the ED: What Do ED Clinicians Think?
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SUBMITTER: Melvin CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933330 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
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Health Information Exchange in the ED: What Do ED Clinicians Think?
Melvin Cathy L CL Saef Steven H SH Pierce Holly O HO Obeid Jihad S JS Carr Christine M CM
Southern medical journal 20160701 7
<h4>Objectives</h4>Our regional health information exchange (HIE), known as Carolina eHealth Alliance (CeHA)-HIE, serves all major hospital systems in our region and is accessible to emergency department (ED) clinicians in those systems. We wanted to understand reasons for low CeHA-HIE utilization and explore options for improving it.<h4>Methods</h4>We implemented a 24-item user survey among ED clinician users of CeHA-HIE to investigate their perceptions of system usability and functionality, th ...[more]
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