With short budgets, political turmoil and uncertainty surrounding payer and provider interest in state health information exchanges (HIEs), how's a state health information technology (HIT) coordinator to gauge how big to build an HIE?

At least two states, Illinois and Iowa, have turned to a modular, cloud-based approach that doesn't necessarily require big investments at the start and can scale up as demand grows.

Read this E-Guide to learn how each state's cloud-based HIE infrastructure model addresses security, performance and disaster recovery requirements.