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Health information exchange (HIE) allows secured access and transmission of patient medical records across several physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare providers. HIE technology has been shown to allow physicians access clinical records real time, avoid redundant testing and treatment (1), improve productivity at initial visit, enhance completeness of patient records, and improve workflow among others with ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes(2) (3). Physicians have opined HIE has great value however, it is imperfect when there is limited availability of data (2). Mandated as part of Meaningful Use stage 2, HIE envisioned the interoperability that is essential for improving health care quality, safety, and patient outcomes. Although interoperability has been stagnant due to lack of standardization in spite of the advances in health information technology, physicians awareness and utilization of HIE likewise have been lagging (4).

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