Brandie Killgore
DeVry University
HSM 330
November 12, 2013
Professor Bonita Altus
Health Information Exchange Health information exchange (HIE) allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers and patients to appropriately access and securely share a patient’s vital medical information electronically. The HIE helps to improve the speed, quality, safety and cost of patient care and sharing of patient information. By electronically exchanging information, it can be standardized which can make data transferring seamlessly and can be integrated into the patient’s electronic health record (EHR). “The goal of health information exchange is …show more content…
OHP was created in 2002 by a coalition of health plans, hospitals and medical personnel that wanted to build a trusted community where business and clinical information can be shared securely and simply. Healthcare professionals are offered an easy and secure way to access and share information by OHP. It was implemented so that Washington State’s HIE is low cost, accessible, and secure information exchange …show more content…
Some of the health plans and hospitals that are online with OHP are Premera Blue Cross, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska, Providence Health System, Regence BlueShield, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, Uniform Medical Plan, LifeWise Health Plan of Arizona, Oregon and Washington, First Choice Health, Group Health Cooperative, Community Health Plan, and Asuris Northwest Health. Each health plan has access to patient information and the healthcare sites (OneHealthPort, 2007). There are additional services that are offered such as; online claims submission, e-prescribing, laboratory results, radiology results, coding resources and online reports and registries. OneHealthPort opens the door to valuable business and clinical solutions with a single way to sign on to local healthcare sites and online services for healthcare professionals. All the services provided helps to make OHP a valuable source for training and