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Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The electronic mobilization of healthcare information across organizations within a region, community, or hospital system. HIE has the ability to electronically move clinical information among different health care information systems and maintain the meaning of the information exchanged. HIE strives to facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data to provide safer, more timely, efficient, effective, equitable, patient-centered care.