Data Governance

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and physicians’ oces, and connect them to HIE networks to access

patient records from other healthcare participants. Federally funded

state-designated entities have been created to govern and promote health

information exchange and work with the federally funded regional exten-

sion centers authorized to help implement EHRs in physicians’ oces.

Oen these are the same organization.

Patient Lookup Model of Health Information Exchange

e HIE is based on a communication network model that facilitates the

movement of electronic data among nodes on the network. What is gener-

ally considered the health information exchange model can be referred to

as the patient lookup model. When a clinician enters a patient’s iden ...