Capterra Glossary
Health Information Exchange (HIE)
A health information exchange (HIE) is a network that allows different healthcare organizations to share patient data. This is done to improve the quality of care for patients by giving doctors and nurses access to as much information as possible about a patient's health history.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Health Information Exchange (HIE)
SMBs can use HIEs to share patient data with other businesses, including insurance providers and pharmaceutical companies. This will allow them to better understand the patients they are treating and the services they provide. Additionally, SMBs can use HIEs to connect with other businesses that offer complementary products or services, which will give them access to a larger market and help them grow their business.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy