Impact and Value
Impact on Patient Care & Outcomes
Most patients receive care from more than one doctor, practice, or hospital. Even with relatively simple healthcare needs, keeping track of information and coordinating that information among doctors can be a daunting task.
Health information exchange (HIE) allows the secure and confidential electronic sharing of health data, ensuring doctors, with patient consent, have access to the most accurate and up-to-date information about patients’ health and treatment history.
Following over a decade of foundation-building and evolution, the SHIN-NY now connects all hospitals in New York State, is used by well over 100,000 healthcare and community-based professionals, and supports the care of millions of people who live in or receive care in New York.
The SHIN-NY enables and supports value-based care, reducing unnecessary or duplicative treatment, leading to better care, healthier patients, and lower costs.
Use of the SHIN-NY to access patient information is associated with approximately:
Value to Healthcare System
Health information exchange (HIE), the sharing of clinical data across the boundaries of healthcare institutions and other health data repositories, is imperative to efforts to improve care delivery.
Many stakeholder groups (payers, patients, providers, and others) realize that if such data are shared, healthcare processes can improve with respect to safety, quality, cost, and other indicators.
The SHIN-NY enables and supports value-based care, leading to better care and lower costs. Use of the SHIN-NY to access patient information is associated with an approximately $160-195 million annual reduction in unnecessary healthcare spending — including significant savings to Medicaid and Medicare.
| Title | Study |
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| Statewide Network for Clinical Data Sharing Reduces Healthcare Costs by an Estimated $160-195 Million Annually | View/Download PDF |
| Pulling Information in Response to a Push: Usage of Query-Based Health Information Exchange in Response to an Event Alert. A Preliminary Report | View/Download PDF |
| Quantifying Benefits of Using Health Information Exchange to Support Public Health STI Reporting and Treatment in Western New York | View Article |
| Do Health Information Exchanges Deter Repetition of Medical Services? | View Article |
| Hospitalization Event Notifications and Reductions in Readmissions of Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries in the Bronx, New York | View Article |
| Health Information Exchange in the Wild: The Association Between Organizational Capability and Perceived utility of Clinical Event Notifications in Ambulatory and Community Care | View Article |
| An Empirical Analysis of the Financial Benefits of Health Information Exchange in Emergency Departments | View Article |
| Health Information Exchange and the Frequency of Repeat Medical Imaging | View Article |
| The Potential for Community-Based Health Information Exchange Systems to Reduce Hospital Readmissions | View Article |
| Local Public Health Efforts Bolstered by Use of Health Information Exchange | View Article |
| Association Between use of a Health Information Exchange System and Hospital Admissions | View Article |
| Health Information Exchange Improves Identification of Frequent Emergency Department Users | View Article |
| Title | Study |
|---|---|
| The Case for Payer Participation in Health Information Exchange | View/Download PDF |
| Health Information Exchange Associated with Improved Emergency Department Care Through Faster Accessing of Patient Information from Outside Organizations | View Article |
| Using Health Information Exchanges to Calculate Clinical Quality Measures: A Study of Barriers and Facilitators | View Article |
| Assessing Payer Perspectives on Health Information Exchange | View Article |
| Differing Strategies to Meet Information-Sharing Needs: Publicly Supported Community Health Information Exchanges Versus Health Systems’ Enterprise Health Information Exchanges | View Article |
| Health Information Exchange Readiness for Demonstrating Return on Investment and Quality of Care | View Article |
| Washington State Medicaid: Implementation and Impact of “ER is for Emergencies” Program | View/Download PDF |
| The Financial Impact of Health Information Exchange on Emergency Department Care | View Article |
| Health information exchange — HealthIT.gov | View Article |