Although patients' privacy may be threatened by electronic information exchange, the quality of electronically exchanged information may, on the other hand, be threatened by patients' desire to protect their privacy.
The fact that many Dutch health care providers already exchange patient data by means of such local or regional electronic information systems, may indicate that they acknowledge the importance and usefulness of electronically exchanging patient information.
The final rules do not guarantee that doctors and hospitals can electronically exchange clinical information on patients.
Sterling, based in Dallas, is a leader in developing systems that link businesses to one another so that they can electronically exchange information.
Prism refers to an automated system for electronically exchanging information regarding FISA requests, according to people briefed on how it works.
Based on the data warehousing technique, this study presents a method which can utilize electronically exchanged documents among project participants for decision support.
Improving health care providers' recording behaviour is important to improve the reliability and quality of electronically exchanged patient data.
The respondents found it unclear who is liable when medical errors are made because of incompleteness or incorrectness of electronically exchanged patient information.
Yet only one-third of public health departments are engaged in local efforts to electronically exchange data between clinical and public health [ 36].
Technical problems, such as the limited interoperability between information systems and the limited speed of electronic information exchange were also perceived as threats to the reliability and quality of electronically exchanged patient information [cf. [ 1, 2]].
In both underserved settings examined in this study, physicians, office managers, and clinic administrators expressed strong support for improved ability to electronically exchange information and reliably access that information.
