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. 2024 Aug;33(1):191-194.
doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1800742. Epub 2025 Apr 8.

Health Information Exchange: Contributions from 2023

Meryl Bloomrosen  1 , Sue S Feldman  2   3
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Health Information Exchange: Contributions from 2023

Meryl Bloomrosen et al. Yearb Med Inform. 2024 Aug.

Abstract

Objectives: To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published online and in print in 2023 related to health information exchange (HIE).

Methods: Using Covidence as a screening and analysis tool, a systematic review of the literature was independently conducted by the two section editors. Seven studies emerged as suitable for final IMIA Yearbook consideration.

Results: Among the papers reviewed, three major themes emerged: clinical services utilization, continuity of care, and public and population health. These themes represent an increased breadth and depth of HIE application.

Conclusions: Review of the literature suggested more studies with the use of data from HIEs, perhaps suggesting increased trust in data accuracy, adequacy, and completeness. The section editors noted the increase in papers from diverse countries describing applications of HIEs suggesting more widespread implementation of HIEs worldwide. As health data standards are developed and adopted globally, this could set the stage for increased international health data exchange. The larger corpus of 2023 literature reviewed resulted in conversations by the section editors on the changing landscape of the expanding, maturing, and innovative use cases for HIEs and HIE data. This landscape bears continued watching in 2024.

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Disclosure The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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Figure 1.
PRISMA diagram of literature search (Generated from Covidence.org)
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