Individuals (Patients)
Patients will benefit from better service delivery and avoidance of medical or safety errors. HIEs enable a patient to see a provider in a different part of the country with the comfort of knowing that their new or interim clinician will have the best information and best reporting tools to provide an optimal level of patient care.
Providers and Health Professionals
Providers and clinicans are free to operate with best evidence based medicine without the fear of loss exposures resulting from incomplete patient histories, records, and registries. Rapid change in healthcare has produced a culture of defensive medicine and reliable data can alleviate such concerns.
Employers (Healthcare Organizations and Related Access Points)
Employers have a vested interest in streamlining inefficiencies and producing better outcomes that accompany risk ready organizations. Employers share cost in the insurance of its human capital against poor health and exorbitant expense. Such unique positioning presents opportunities and exposures not associated with other stakeholders.
Insurers (Payers)
Payers have great opportunity to bend the cost curve as care delivery employs more digital technology and communication tools. The best scenarios of HIE participation and patient portal adoption can optimize the digital record enough to have real-time financial implications data from a change in strategy or hazard event.
Government and Public Policy Entities
Public policy makers have set a clear legal agenda to foster digital transformation, electronic data interchanges, and modernization of healthcare technology. Nevertheless, the ambitious initiatives of the HITECH provisions of the ACA require capabilites that have yet to be realized. Many of the standards are still being investigated and studied to ensure success.