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Making strides Texas HIEs close in on connecting


Shkelzen Hoxhaj, MD, is chief medical adviser for Greater Houston Healthconnect, a health information exchange serving a 20-county area. He says efforts at the local, state, and national levels will make it possible for exchanges to share information throughout Texas and across state lines.


“It would not surprise me if we see some


consolidation among the HIEs of Texas.”


BY CRYSTAL ZUZEK Texas’ health information exchanges (HIEs) are closer to being able to connect to one another locally and across state lines. Shkelzen Hoxhaj, MD, a Houston emergency physician, can’t wait for the day Texas achieves full interop- erability, allowing physicians and patients to benefit from information technology systems’ ability to communicate and exchange vital patient data. “HIEs make it possible for physicians to see everything that’s going on with a


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