Health information exchange needs tuning.

• Position: Nursing Homes - Brief article

When older adults transfer between nursing homes and hospitals, Inefficient and unclear communication between the organizations can hinder patient care. A team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Columbia, is working to improve patients' health outcomes by increasing efficient, secure communication using an electronic system called health information exchange (HIE).

"Ultimately, we want to facilitate a way for staff members to communicate safely and...