A Lightweight Approach to Interoperable Health Information Exchange

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  • Anthony W. Wallace
  • Rex E. Gantenbein
چکیده

The ability to electronically exchange health information among different facilities or organizations has significant potential to improve patient care and reduce the costs of that care. However, the only approaches currently known to support this exchange of information are either expensive or dependent on a centralized repository of data. We propose instead to use existing Web technology to develop a lightweight and relatively inexpensive mechanism for exchanging information that allows organizations to maintain their records independently but supports requests from other organizations for information to be fulfilled. Introduction In April 2004, U.S. President George W. Bush issued an executive order establishing the position of National Health Information Technology Coordinator. This position was created to support developing a nationwide interoperable health information technology (HIT) infrastructure. It is widely held that the development of HIT has the potential to greatly improve the quality of patient care, enhance the efficiency of health care professionals, and reduce the costs of health care. At the same time, the U.S. health care system has been slow in its adoption of HIT due to a number of challenges, 1 Corresponding author: Dr. Rex Gantenbein, University of Wyoming Center for Rural Health Research and Education, 1000 E. University Avenue Department 3432, Laramie WY 82071. Voice 307.766.6544, fax 307.766.4356, e-mail [email protected].

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تاریخ انتشار 2007