It’s Your Fault! Breach Notification in the Age of Electronic Health Information Exchange
This Feature Article is brought to you by AHLA's Health Information and Technology Practice Group.
- July 01, 2025
- Adam H. Greene , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
You are traveling on a family trip to a national park in a remote part of the country that you previously only dreamed of visiting. Unfortunately, a tumble leaves you visiting that scenic area’s closest emergency department. Within moments of first seeing you, the treating physician can instantly pull up your past medical records, identifying some relevant medication allergies and past conditions. Or you are visiting a new specialist for the first time. In addition to asking for your medical history, she can see past x-rays, CT scans, and MRIs, allowing her to identify whether something of note has changed over the years. These are just some of the myriad of use cases that make nationwide health information exchange (HIE) so exciting. Through increased interoperability and connectivity, patients, health systems, and health plans have the opportunity to realize improved health care and reduced health care costs.
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