A Health Information Exchange (HIE) enables authorized physicians and other providers to populate and view a patient's clinical results across institutional boundaries. Regional Health Information Organizations or RHIOs are being established around the nation to promote HIE.
No more phoning and waiting for lab results to be faxed, or sending patients for another round of tests when results are not forthcoming.
No more logging into one portal for lab results, and another portal for radiology results.
No more guessing about what medications treating physicians may have prescribed for your patient.
An HIE such as The Rochester RHIO can provide a single source for timely and trended results for patients as they move through our regional health care delivery system, with a patient-centric view of clinical information that maps to the way care is actually delivered.