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# HIE

## Health Information Exchange (HIE)

### What is HIE?

Health Information Exchange allows health care professionals and patients to appropriately access and securely share a patient’s medical information electronically. There are many health care delivery scenarios driving the technology behind the different forms of health information exchange available today.

### HIE Benefits

Sharing electronic patient information enables providers to:

• Access and confidentially share patients’ vital medical history, no matter where patients are receiving care—specialists’ offices, labs, or emergency rooms

• Provide safer, more effective care tailored to patients’ unique medical needs

<https://www.healthit.gov/topic/health-it-and-health-information-exchange-basics/health-information-exchange>