What is the Rochester RHIO?
Rochester RHIO is the regional health information exchange that equips healthcare providers with certain key information that can help them more effectively treat a patient. It gives physicians and their staffs a single online resource for patient information from multiple providers – and saves the time spent chasing down records manually or logging in to multiple sources.
What patient information is available?
Rochester RHIO users are accessing:
- Lab reports
- Medication history
- Insurance eligibility information
- Radiology reports and Images
- e-Prescribing
- Hospital Discharge Summaries
- Emergency Department Reports
In the near future, RHIO will also provide:
- Medicaid Medication History
- Advance Directives/MOLST
- Emergency Medical Services reports
- Patient portal to allow patients to set thier consent preferences and request audits
How much does it cost to participate?
The VHR service provides access to all of the information types described above and is free to physicians. Rochester RHIO also provides the Elysium EHR, a low cost, highly interoperable electronic medical record system.
Physicians who purchase an EHR system from an outside vendor can connect to Rochester RHIO. RHIO already supports many third-party EHR applications and there is no charge from the Rochester RHIO to physicians for developing links to new ones.
How does the patient information get into the exchange?
Patient information is pulled from individual hospital, lab, payer or physician servers and made available for viewing. (Note, the information is pulled for viewing purposes only, the RHIO is not a new centralized database for patient information; it’s an exchange that allows different patient systems to share information.) EHRs link seamlessly into Rochester RHIO to send reports right to the health record systems.
Who provides data?
Most of the area's labs, hospital systems, and payers are participating already, with more in the process of being added.