The Health Information Exchange Formation Guide

Winner of HIMSS 2011 Book of the Year Award, this book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to forming an HIE in your state, region, or community. Based on extensive research and the authors' experiences as HIE consultants, this book describes a structured approach to forming an HIE that has helped other organizations as they journeyed through the planning and formation stages and then moved on to successful operations. The book includes a high-level overview if HIE, followed by a brief discussion of why it is so important.