The IBM Health Information Exchange manages document sharing among healthcare enterprises - from private physicians and clinics to public health agencies and research labs. Electronic health record (EHR) software is a vital step toward streamlining healthcare for all.
Health Information Sharing Software: IBM Health Information Exchange
1. IBM SALES AND DISTRIBUTION Transform healthcare through information sharing
Solution Brief
IBM Health Information
Exchange
Healthcare enterprises and overseers face consumers who demand
more from their providers. These enterprises need better visibility into
Highlights patient health histories and performance metrics. Industry leaders
● Enables sharing of documents
agree that healthcare IT is central to better information-sharing and
and images among healthcare the collaboration required to optimize patient care and improve effi-
enterprises—regardless of source, ciency. The IBM® Health Information Exchange can help.
location or format—in support of
improved patient care
Data collection efforts are commonly particular to specific care
● Serves as a data repository and
settings—such as in the hospital or ambulatory care organization—or
searchable registry of clinical docu-
ments within a sharing domain to specific payers, both private and public. And it remains largely a
manual function performed by clinicians, who must sift through multi-
● Records audit events generated by all
exchange interactions
ple patient records obtained from many sources to abstract needed
patient health information and other performance data. Because data is
● Is based on proven, scalable
collected and used in fragmented ways, a holistic picture rarely
IBM middleware
emerges.
● Establishes a standard data-sharing
methodology vital to the creation
and adoption of electronic health The siloed data collection efforts of multiple providers inhibit the
records (EHRs) creation of electronic health records (EHRs) that could follow every
patient through the healthcare system during their lives. Hospitals cite
most often the significant expense and system interoperability as hur-
dles prohibiting the widespread adoption of EHRs, the “holy grail” of
the healthcare IT industry. The IBM Health Information Exchange
can help achieve this goal by enabling you to sort through the multi-
tude of formats, protocols, systems and technologies and obtain the
information you need to successfully run your business and provide
quality service to the healthcare industry and consumers.
The exchange helps you share documents and images among health-
care enterprises—regardless of source, location or format. It also serves
as a data repository and searchable registry of clinical documents
within a sharing domain, and records audit events generated by all
interactions with the exchange. In addition, the exchange established a
standard data-sharing methodology that is a vital step in achieving the
goal of creating and adopting EHRs.