HI150 Automation of Health Information

Unit outcome addressed in this Discussion:

Differentiate between various models for health information exchange.

Course outcomes addressed in this Discussion:

HI150-4: Articulate the key features of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Health Information Exchanges (HIE).

Discussion Topic: Health Information Exchanges 

Health Information Exchanges

For practice for your Unit 8 assignment, start your research on the health information exchanges (HIEs) and how these affect the future of the national health information superhighway.

Review the information in your textbook along with the Web Reading as listed under Unit 8.

What are health information exchanges? How do they work?

Contribute to the discussion by adding any specific information that you found of interest.

Discussion responses should be on topic, original, and contribute to the quality of the Discussion by making frequent informed references to lesson materials and Seminars. Review the Discussion grading rubric located in the Course Resources.

Initial Discussion posts should be in the range of 100-200 words. Responses to your classmates or instructor should be around 75 words.

Participation Expectations: Please engage on this topic throughout the unit by posting one main response by Saturday and two reply posts by the end of the unit. Your main post to the discussion should contain about 100-150 words, with no more than 10% quoting, and all sources cited with a reference list in APA style. Each reply post should contain about 50–75 words—use of APA style as needed.

This is a graded Discussion. To review the grading rubric, go to Course Resources/Grading Rubrics.