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Health Information Exchange for Alaska - It's Safe, it's secure, it's time!
A statewide health information exchange reduces costs for everyone!

Improved Speed & Quality of Care: With an Electronic Health Record (EHR) doctors have secure, immediate access to your essential medical information to treat you quickly.

Improved Safety: When critical information is available in real time at the point of care, the risk of a medical error is greatly decreased. Ane, when past test results are included in the EHR, duplicate, expensive tests will not need to be ordered.

Increased Efficiencies: Decreased paperwork and immediate access to records, labs and other test results. Increase the efficiencies for delivering healthcare services while lowering medical costs for all involved, including you, the patient.

Greater Convenience: No more need to repeast your medical and personal history, contact data, or insurance and billing information! You give it once; it's in your EHR.

Privacy and Security Safeguards: Safeguards are required to ensure your privacy and the secure exchange of your medical information. Contrast that with the unwieldy paper records still in use in many facilties with outdated and error-prone faxed or telephoned exchange of information.