Healthcare Strategies

Saving lives with a state health information exchange

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The Connecticut Poison Control Center receives on average a hundred calls a day and operates 24/7. To handle such an immense workload, the Center relies on one tool to sustain and improve its emergency response: the state's health information exchange (HIE), Connie. How does this HIE help the Center save lives? Listen to find out!

Featuring: Suzanne Doyon, MD, medical director of the Connecticut Poison Control Center at UConn Health

In today's episode, we will cover: 

  • What drove the Connecticut Poison Control Center to integrate the state's health information exchange
  • How the tool has impacted efficiency and even staff morale
  • The potential that other agencies have/could actualize by leveraging the health information exchange

    • ...and more!

    References: 

    • Definition: What is a Health Information Exchange?
    • More on Connie: Once an underdog, Connecticut’s HIE network gains traction
    • Health information exchange barriers hamper telehealth adoption

      • To learn more about value-based care, check out our site Healthtech Analytics.  

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