Why HIEs and RHIOs Will Change the Flow of Laboratory Test Data

Feb 5, 2007 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

In a growing number of cities around the United States, efforts are under way to organize a regional health information repository. Such a development has implications to change the long-standing relationships laboratories have with physicians, hospitals, patients, and payers. Two acronyms are used to describe these regional informatics projects. One is RHIO, which stands for Regional Health Information Network. The other is HIE, which stands for Healthcare Information Exchange. Because of the...

What’s Up with RHIOs and HIEs in the USA!

Dec 20, 2006 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Because lab data represents the majority of information in a patient medical record, it is important for every laboratory to stay informed about efforts to pool clinical information and create regional repositories for health data. To help laboratory directors and pathologists stay up with the latest developments in RHIOS and HIEs, DARK Daily did some research. One good source was the American Health Information and Management Association (AHIMA). It released a report in September detailing...
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