Dale Sanders in if 2/7/10 post asked the right questions about HIE sustainability and value. We hear very little about the successful HIE and I suspect will continue to hear about the failures with some frequency. Come on folks, those of you running successful operations, speak out and tell us your secrets. Hie’s need good press for the sake of our patients and for American healthcare system. The current model of episodic care is inefficient and becoming less profitable. It’s time for healthcare CIO’ to stop being passive about our industry and use the technology to change the model.
As leaders we have to do more to help clinicians use the data to treat patients in the most effective way. For me, I think it is one of the imperatives, dare I say moral imperative to move the data to the point of care in a format that is meaningful, easy and valuable. The HIE is the platform to start terra-forming the landscape on which care is provided. It’s the precipice of agility. Agility in communication, which begets better care, agility in finance to fuel the change, agility in quality, to improve outcomes and lower cost, and agility in coordinating care to change the focus on the patient from microscopic to telescopic as we look at the patient with a long term perspective. These are some of the value statements we all need to consider. So come on successful HIE’s tell us how you did it. Maybe we can help move healthcare in a new direction. For the sake of our industry remember the words of Lewis Carol:” One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”
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