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...
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