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Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). (2023). Health information exchange. U.S. Government.
Official definitions and a rationale for advancing HIE in the United States. For additional resources, several links are provided.

Panagopoulos, A., Minssen, T., Sideri, K., Yu, H., & Compagnucci, M. C. (2022). Incentivizing the sharing of healthcare data in the AI Era. Computer Law & Security Review, 45, 105670.
This article describes how burgeoning AI tech is complicating efforts to manage health care data sharing standards and define enforceable standards limiting big tech company use of pooled personal health data. Several configurations of data sharing management are also explored.

Lenert, L., & McSwain, B. Y. (2020). Balancing health privacy, health information exchange, and research in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27(6), 963-966.
Government responses to COVID-19 tested the limits of what can legally be done under the banner of protecting public health to combat a global pandemic, including widespread contact tracing and the sharing of personal health information without patient consent. This JAMA Perspective article explores how a functional HIE would improve public pandemic response without avoiding some potential problems.

Macomber, L. T. (2023). HealthTech discovery. HealthTech discovery HIT Blog.

Chandrasekaran, R., Sankaranarayanan, B., & Pendergrass, J. (2021). Unfulfilled promises of health information exchange: What inhibits ambulatory clinics from electronically sharing health information? International Journal of Medical Informatics, 149, 104418. Available in the NU Library, this article goes into detail on why large gaps persist between what is theoretically possible with HIEs and what we are more likely to find in the real world.