The survey found:
- 95 percent of payers, 83 percent of hospitals and 70 percent of physicians feel current public HIEs are not providing needed services.
- 94 percent of payers do not see the value proposition in public HIEs, and 97 percent see public HIE as struggling to effectively exchange patient data.
- 72 percent of respondents said by 2017, as few as 10 of the currently functioning public HIEs will be able to sustain operations using their current business models.
- 88 percent of clinicians and 96 percent of payers agree that payers will fill an information gap, allowing clinicians to use payer data at the point of care to improve treatment.
Survey results were based on responses from 1,550 provider organizations utilizing HIEs and 794 payers and insurers over the last six months of 2013.
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