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.

1. Healthcare
Personalized
Transformed
Mobilized

2. Advance Directives
across
Health Information Systems
David B. Simmons, DMin, BCC
MHA Student
Penn State University, Harrisburg

3. The Power of Technology

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.

9. Patient Centeredness
Value Based Care

10. Patient Centeredness
Patients receive only the
care they desire.

11. Value Based Care
End of Life care consumes
significant healthcare
dollars.

13. State-sponsored

14. Private Sector

16. Personal Health Record Platform

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.

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