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Saving lives with a state health information exchange
Healthcare Strategies
28 minutes 46 seconds
6 months ago
Saving lives with a state health information exchange
The Connecticut Poison Control Center receives on average a hundred calls a day and operates 24/7. To handle such an immense workload, the Center relies on one tool to sustain and improve its emergency response: the state's health information exchange (HIE), Connie. How does this HIE help the Center save lives? Listen to find out!
Featuring: Suzanne Doyon, MD, medical director of the Connecticut Poison Control Center at UConn Health
In today's episode, we will cover:
What drove the Connecticut Poison Control Center to integrate the state's health information exchange
How the tool has impacted efficiency and even staff morale
The potential that other agencies have/could actualize by leveraging the health information exchange
...and more!
References:
Definition: What is a Health Information Exchange?
More on Connie: Once an underdog, Connecticut’s HIE network gains traction
Health information exchange barriers hamper telehealth adoption