The agreement facilitates care delivery for patients who live close to the states’ shared border.
“Healthcare does not neatly follow state borders, so information about patients needs to follow them wherever they go,” said Raul Recarey, executive director of ILHIE, in a news release. “Many Illinois patients from the southern portion of our state are referred to Missouri hospitals. The ILHIE/MHC agreement will allow providers from either state to have access to critically important patient data, regardless of whether that data resides in Missouri or Illinois.”
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