HIE Integration:  Lessons Learned in the Field

Jack McGuire, Director, and Harold Robinson, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP.  Jack and Harold discuss the original vision of HIE integration, current outcomes, and where the industry has struggled to achieve adoption.  With all of the competing health information technology priorities associated with Health Reform, and the inability of the initial top-down approach to gain traction, how does the industry balance the benefits and public value of HIE integration from local to a nationwide exchange?