How Care Provider Access to Regional Data Reduces Hospital Readmissions

The Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange (PHIX) provides data sharing to the El Paso, Texas border region. This exchange includes connections between regional hospitals, outpatient clinics, laboratories, imaging centers, and more to provide a holistic view of patient health. When primary care physicians use PHIX’s clinical viewer to access their patients’ medical records from the community they greatly reduce the likelihood of that patients’ use of an emergency department or readmission to the hospital. This is fueled by PHIX’s historical focus on the community depth of data and the accessibility of data to local clinicians. By providing detailed clinical data to clinicians on patient visits in the community they are better prepared to provide secondary and tertiary interventions.