Benefits of Participation
eHealth Exchange expands access and connectivity to a broad range of organizations, public or private.
The following are examples of benefits provided by participating in eHealth Exchange:
- Eliminates point-to-point agreements among trading partners
- Provides a single API (connection) to exchange nationwide
- Provides connectivity with over 60 state and regional HIEs
- Provides connectivity to over 20 additional national networks
- Increases confidence in exchange when partners are recognized as part of trusted community
- Minimizes need for one-off testing
- Contributes toward transitions of ONC Meaningful Use Measure #2
- Enables exchange with governmental providers
- Trust policies are sufficient to exchange, are mature and widely adopted
- Cost-effective and efficient (national-level ROI)
- Functional and scalable shared services
