Patient Information

A Health Information Exchange (HIE) enables authorized physicians and other health care providers to share a patient's clinical results across institutional boundaries. This can save lives in a medical emergency, as well as improving the quality of routine medical care. Regional Health Information Organizations or RHIOs are currently being established around the nation to promote HIE.

RHIO lets your medical team share information essential to your care electronically through the secure online exchange. The benefits include:

• Fewer repeated tests. Your doctors can quickly access the results of tests performed at other locations.
• Easier second opinions. Your entire medical team can access the diagnostic information they need.
• Reduced risk of mistakes. Errors caused by poor handwriting, hard to read faxes, and lost paper forms are eliminated.
• Less chance of drug interactions. The system's electronic prescribing feature automatically warns of incorrect dosage or possible drug interactions.
• Greater convenience. Patients will no longer need to carry clinical reports, prescription information and other medical results between health care settings.
• Protection of patient privacy. Only authorized health care personnel can see patient information. All access made to a patients' health information is tracked and can be audited.