Health Information Exchange (HIE): Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems allows health professionals to appropriately access, and securely share, patients’ vital medical information electronically, thus improving the speed, quality, safety, and cost of patient care.

The book presents foundational knowledge on HIE, covering the broad areas of technology, governance, and policy, providing a concise, yet in-depth, look at HIE that can be used as a teaching tool for universities, healthcare organizations with a training component, certification institutions, and as a tool for self-study for independent learners who want to know more about HIE when studying for certification exams.

• Offers foundational knowledge on Health Information Exchange (HIE), covering the broad areas of technology, governance, and policy
• Focuses on explaining HIE and its complexities in the context of U.S. health reform, as well as emerging health IT activities in foreign nations
• Provides a number of in-depth case studies to connect learners to real-world application of the content and lessons from the field
• Offers didactic content organization and an increasing complexity through five parts

practitioners and clinical researchers involved in health systems development; advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying HIE as well as health IT; health care organizations and independent learners seeking to train for HIT related certifications.