Beyond just being something that is required for federal initiatives, information exchange represents the transformational element that will propel the health care industry to a new level of care and patient engagement.

This E-Guide explores some of the more important issues surrounding health information exchange (HIE), as well as what CIOs can do to become HIE gurus. Topics include:

• How to standardize data across disparate networks
• How to keep patient data private
• Resolving the business needs of competing hospitals
• Whether or not the HIE will use a federated centralized structure
• And much more