Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2016 Jul;109(7):419-26.
doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000466.

Health Information Exchange in the ED: What Do ED Clinicians Think?

Cathy L Melvin  1 , Steven H Saef  1 , Holly O Pierce  1 , Jihad S Obeid  1 , Christine M Carr  1
Affiliations

Health Information Exchange in the ED: What Do ED Clinicians Think?

Cathy L Melvin et al. South Med J. 2016 Jul.

Abstract

Objectives: 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.

Methods: We implemented a 24-item user survey among ED clinician users of CeHA-HIE to investigate their perceptions of system usability and functionality, the quality of the information available through CeHA-HIE, the value of clinician time spent using CeHA-HIE, the ease of use of CeHA-HIE, and approaches for improving CeHA-HIE.

Results: Of the 231 ED clinicians surveyed, 51 responded, and among those, 48 reported having used CeHA-HIE and completed the survey.

Conclusions: Results show most ED clinicians believed that CeHA-HIE was easy to use and added value to their work, but they also desired better integration of information available from CeHA-HIE into their system's electronic medical record.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

C.M.C. has no financial relationships to disclose and no conflicts of interest to report.

References

    1. Carr CM, DiGioia CH, Wagner J, et al. Primer in health information exchange for the emergency physician: benefits and barriers. South Med J. 2013;106:374–378. - PubMed
    1. Health information technology (HIE) [Accessed October 12, 2015]; https://www.healthit.gov/HIE. Published 2014.
    1. Rudin RS, Motala A, Goldzweig CL, et al. Usage and effect of health information exchange: a systematic review. Ann Intern Med. 2014;161:803–811. - PubMed
    1. Kruse CS, Regier V, Rheinboldt KT. Barriers over time to full implementation of health information exchange in the United States. JMIR Med Inform. 2014;2:e26. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Genes N, Shapiro J, Vaidya S, et al. Adoption of health information exchange by emergency physicians at three urban academic medical centers. Appl Clin Inform. 2011;2:263–269. - PMC - PubMed

MeSH terms