HIMSS23 education: Validating interoperability efforts on the local level

The Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange enables data sharing between 11 regional hospitals and more than 40 outpatient clinics, local primary care practices, laboratories, imaging centers, home health and more in the El Paso, Texas, border region. 

The hyperlocal HIE has built a clinical viewer that enables primary care physicians and doctors to access patient medical records from the community. It has reduced hospital readmissions…