Findings from the 2023 Yearbook Section on Health Information Exchange

Abstract

Objectives: To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2022 related to Health Information Exchange (HIE). Methods: A systematic review of the literature was performed by the two section editors with the help of a medical librarian. We searched bibliographic databases for HIE-related papers using both MeSH headings and keywords in titles and abstracts. A shortlist of ten candidate best papers was first selected by section editors before being peer-reviewed by Yearbook editors and independent external reviewers. Results: Major themes of the set of ten articles included factors influencing the organizational adoption of HIE and clinicians' use of the information, use of HIE in non-traditional settings, patients' perspectives on HIE, and outcomes of using HIE. Conclusions: These studies provide suggestions for the research questions, theories, settings, methods, and outcomes that can be fruitfully used for further research on HIE.