The forum will educate community leaders who are working on health information exchanges about other efforts, experiences, and best practices from initiatives across the country. The RHIO Wiki is an open, online, real-time tool for community leaders to collaborate on health information exchanges by: 1) searching a library of information on other local and regional efforts; 2) asking and receiving from other leaders their thoughts on specific challenges, issues, and opportunities; and 3) sharing with other leaders their own experiences, expertise, and knowledge.
Overview of RHIOs and Health Information Exchanges
What are RHIOs and Health Information Exchanges?
- Why we need RHIOs and Health Information Exchanges
- Improve the quality of care
- Efficiency, automation
- Research
- Patient safety
- National security necessity
- Pay for performance and RHIOs
- Chronic care
- Transformational Change is Difficult--But Vital
Financing Overview – Contributed Versus Earned Income
- Contributed Income
- Federal Funding Support
- Funding Provided through Federal Agencies
- Funding in Pending Legislation
- CBO Scoring Reform
- Stark/Anti-Kickback Reforms
- Philanthropy and Private Sector Support
- Earned Income
Confidentiality of Personal Health Information
- Who owns the data?
- Patient consent
- HIPAA
- National patient identifier
- Record locator services
- Federal preemption of state privacy laws
- Technical security of information
Interoperability/Technical Infrastructure
- Overview
- The Role of Standards
- The Need for Conformance Testing
- Technical Aspects to Address in Every RHIO
- Data Storage and Retrieval Architecture
- Message Transport Architecture
- Terminology (controlled vocabulary, value sets) and Coding Standards
- Security Standards
- Network Services
- Alternatives Views Related to the Technical Aspects of HIE'''