A recent survey from Healtheway, the non-profit, public-private collaboration that operationally supports eHealth Exchange, shows increased participation and activity in the national health information exchange.
The HIE, launched in 2007, currently has 41 participants that represent 800 hospitals, 6,000 physician practices, 800 dialysis centers and 850 retail pharmacies. These participating organizations performed several hundred thousand data exchanges, and pushed more than 25 million transactions to CMS to support the End Stage Renal Disease Program.
Participation in the HIE is expected to rise. More than 60 organizations have applied to join the network, and eHealth Exchange expects to have more than 100 participants this spring.
"The numbers tell a very compelling story," said Mariann Yeager, executive director of Healtheway, in a news release. "In just a few months, the eHealth Exchange is expected to connect more than 1,600 hospitals, which is more than 30 percent of the hospitals in the United States, plus 10,000 medical groups."
"We started off with an ambitious goal of making the eHealth Exchange a prominent and viable method for secure online e-health transactions in the nation," she said, "and these survey results indicate that we've made great strides in that direction."
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