Overhage J Marc
Medical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Sep-Oct;26(5):w595-7. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.5.w595. Epub 2007 Aug 1.
The country has identified health information exchange (HIE) as an essential strategy to address our crisis of cost, quality, and safety in health care. The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) will consist of a "network of networks"--interconnected local or regional HIEs. We must create policy and technical interfaces that allow these local exchanges to share data with each other. More importantly, we must create nationwide exchanges that are consistent across the country. The should be parsimonious--not overly constraining how the exchanges operate and maintaining separation between the applications that provide functionality and the network that supports HIE.
该国已将健康信息交换（HIE）确定为应对我们医疗保健领域成本、质量和安全危机的一项基本战略。全国健康信息网络（NHIN）将由一个“网络之网络”组成——相互连接的本地或区域健康信息交换机构。我们必须创建政策和技术接口，使这些本地交换机构能够相互共享数据。更重要的是，我们必须创建全国范围内统一的交换机构。这些交换机构应该简约——不过度限制交换的运作方式，并保持提供功能的应用程序与支持健康信息交换的网络之间的分离。
