EMR Implementation & HITECH Act Blog
A blog for doctors and medical office staff seeking assistance with EMR and the HITECH Act.
Category Archives: RHIO
2009
Health Information Technology: A View From The Inside, Part 1
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Dr. Brian Keaton is President and CEO of NEO RHIO, a Regional Health Information Organization serving 22 counties in Northeast Ohio. He is a past President and Board Chairman of the 26,000 member American College of Emergency Physicians, an emergency physician and a professor of emergency medicine at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. We caught up with him between meetings and talked with him about how all the pieces of the EMR puzzle will fit together.
Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, HITECH Act, RHIO
Tagged: EMR, HIE, HIPAA, HITECH and RHIO, Regional Extension Center, RHIO
2009
RHIOs: The Glue That Will Hold HIT Together
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Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) will serve as an infrastructure for – and enable sharing of — electronic health information. A RHIO is designed to pull together all of the organizations, facilities and individuals in the race to computerize health data. Implementers such as hospitals, medical offices, laboratories, payers, insurers and patients all have a stake and must have their issues taken into account. That’s where RHIOs come in.
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