Health Information Exchange
What is Health Information Exchange?
The electronic sharing of health-related information between healthcare organizations, requiring strict privacy and security controls.
Terms that appear alongside health information exchange
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as health information exchange. The number is how many controls name both.
- information exchange 3 shared controls
- certification 2 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern health information exchange
What the standards actually require on health information exchange
Requirements naming health information exchange across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
An organization that provides data transmission of protected health information to a covered entity or its business associate and requires routine access to it (a health information exchange organization, a regional health information organization, an e-prescr...
hitech-act::13408 · Section 13408: health information exchanges, e-prescribing gateways and PHR vendors serving covered entities are business associates and must have contracts →Supplementary control: the rules, procedures and agreements governing a transfer should exist before it happens. Aim: secure transfer of information across its whole life cycle.
iso-27799-2025::5.14 · 5.14 Information transfer →Health information exchange must promote equitable access and not create barriers for underserved populations.
TEF-5 · Access and Equity →Questions people ask about health information exchange
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