Through our annual data exchange survey, eHealth Initiative has tracked the growth and progress of data exchange efforts across the United States. This webinar shares eHI's findings from the 2013 survey. An expert panel of health information exchange representatives share their thoughts on the results and discuss how the findings relate to their experiences building and maintaining a data exchange.

The group will discuss challenges and strategies for connecting rural healthcare providers to health information exchange.

In March of 2014, the Connecting Communities Workgroup featured speakers discussing challenges and strategies for connecting behavioral health providers and exchanging behavioral health information. Speakers included:

Healthcare spending in the United States is disproportionately unbalanced. Patients who have higher healthcare needs account for approximately half of all healthcare spending in America. These patients, known as “Super Utilizers” suffer from multiple, complex chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and mental illness to name a few. Under the Affordable Care Act we are beginning to reform and reshape the way we traditionally think of how healthcare is delivered - through a coordinated approach, Super Utilizers can be treated in a way that will improve their health outcomes, while reducing their overall costs to the healthcare system.