As the Health Information Exchange ensures that essential patient data is shared across electronic platforms from provider to provider, it is critical that patients' advance directives are included in the information exchange.
4. Health Information Exchange
• HIE allows health care
professionals and patients
to appropriately access and
securely share a patient’s
medical information
electronically.
www.HealtITt.gov/topic/health-it-basics/
health-information-exchange
Interoperability
• The extent to which systems and devices can
exchange data, and interpret that shared data.
http://www.himss.org/library/interoperability
-standards/what-is
5. Health Information Technology
access and securely share a patient’s
vital medical information
electronically to improve quality,
safety and cost of patient care.
6. …the documentation of a
patient’s healthcare wishes
should they face a terminal
condition and are unable to
speak for themselves.
17. What can you do?
Accept that advance directives are an essential
part of patient centered and value based care.
Develop your system to solicit, obtain,
store and communicate your patients’
healthcare directives.
Include advance directives in your
health information exchange.
Healthcare cost in the last year of life represent one percent of our nation’s GDP, with over 55 billion Medicare dollars spent in the last two months of life.
