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Health information exchanges (HIEs) advance interoperability and provide clinicians with greater access to patient health data for care coordination, according to an op-ed published in the Journal of AHIMA.
Chris Hobson, MD, chief medical officer at Orion Health, and Allen Ausford, MD, FCFP, a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta, authored the op-ed.
Hobson and Ausford noted that while some health professaionals may use the terms EHR and HIE interchangeably, the two systems are distinctly different.
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