What Is a RHIO?
June 12th, 2007 by Jon Mertz
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There is much written about RHIOs. RHIO stands for Regional Health Information Organizations. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines a RHIO in the following way:
“…support state and other regional projects that help harmonize the privacy and business rules for health information exchange. There are over 100 regional projects under way that are funded by the Federal government. Several other projects are being supported by private industry efforts or are substantiated by State Governors and/or state legislation.”
RHIOs raise positive and negative impressions, but they have admirable, yet very challenging, goals for healthcare integration in the US.
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