The elevation of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. The HIT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was employed in 2009—assigning over $19 billion to surge the use of EHRs by …show more content…
We use the lens of official and strategic management theories to empirically discover the changes in business strategies organized in HIEs that are, to date, monetarily versus those that are not. Health information exchanges (HIEs) are organizations dedicated to automatically transfer patients' medical data (such as records, images, test results) between providers to recover the delivery of care. HIEs change in one of two ways: as private extensions of the electronic health record (EHR) systems of hospitals and combined delivery networks (IDNs)and as self-governing, local, community-based organizations (Langabeer II, J. R., Champagne, T., & Sullivan, S. ,