Study Shows Electronic HIE Could Save Billions in Healthcare Costs

The results of a US study have shown that investing in healthcare Information Technology (IT) could lead to healthcare spending reductions in the billions of dollars, in the US alone.

According to the researchers, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), which enable healthcare providers and hospitals to exchange and share medical data, are now showing their promised value to the healthcare systems.

The study was carried out by IT researchers at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business (Notre Dame, IN, USA), and at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF; San Francisco, CA, USA), and was published in April 16, 2017, in the SSRN eLibrary.

The researchers used data from 2003 to 2009, and compared average spending in health care markets with and without operational HIEs. More...