Factors influencing patients' opt-in intention of exchanging health information

Findings from the 2023 Yearbook Section on Health Information Exchange

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.