The Health Information Exchange: A Case Study

The Health Information Exchange must evolve from traditional models operating independent and descriptive to a system data to allow processing information in an integrated manner and, therefore, generate knowledge, so that the NHS can be positioned advantageously to respond to the demands of society it serves and overcome the threats that limit their proper development.
The Information System is, therefore, a key to meet the present and future challenges arising from our organizational reality and the demands posed by three major players that make up the health system exchange.
Health sector providers are migrating from large independent organizations to new and complex ecosystems. Provider organizations, groups affiliated physicians, laboratories, among others, are involved both in patient care dispensing and collecting information about them. Exchanges
It is necessary that healthcare providers have the communication and collaboration platforms that allow integration between the various stakeholders. These changes in information flows, along with the explosion of digital content that needs to be stored and shared, are the main drivers for creating secure, flexible and scalable IT platforms through suppliers, financiers and experts who sciences health can collaborate and exchange information.
The transition to a more focused attention on the patient and decentralized supervision means that providers, patients and payers need access to information that originates outside the hospital setting. The trend towards personalized, preventive medicine and healthy means that different actors need to connect to information from several points of the value chain in the health sector - including suppliers, laboratories, funders and patients-. The more open is private information to external entities, the greater the likelihood that these systems can be compromised, either intentionally or