Document Type : مقاله مروری نقلی
Author
PhD Candidate of Health Information Management, Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Instant access to individuals, health information is influential for the health promotion throughout the community in both personal and public domains. Patients’ lives endanger due to lack of timely access to their own health information and subsequently lead to adverse events. Patients’ health information fragmented due to either geographical distribution of health care organizations or lack of integrated information systems. Todays, Health information exchange systems facilitate data sharing among health care entities and improve health management through the community. This study was conducted in 2014, searching the literature using the term of “Health Information Exchange” in technical databases, including PubMed-MEDLINE and Springer during 2004-2014. Totally, 9 out of 52 retrieved articles were omitted as redundancy in both databases and irrelevancy. After that, the relevant abstracts were reviewed and their full texts were extracted. Additionally, Google search engine and especially scholar section were searched to obtain related literature, including library resources of Health Information and Management Systems Society. This review was aimed at explaining the essentials of health information exchange including the history, architectural strategies, common technical models and the advantages of being use of Health Information Exchange systems. Moreover, the barriers to the implementation of such systems were discussed.
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