Table 2.

Perceived benefits of health information exchange (descending importance, and stratified by benefit)

Predominantly organizational benefit	Predominantly societal benefit
Improved quality of care for patients in organization	Improved quality of care for patients not in organization
Reduced duplicate testing (accrual of benefit depends on organization type and payment structure)
Improved public perception of organization	Public health research and population-level health efforts
Satisfies altruistic organizational mission
Creating a positive connection with other provider organizations	Helping the poorest, sickest patients
Consolidating existing exchange efforts
Keeping up to date with data privacy and security regulations
Increasing the speed of emergency department care