Guide to Establishing a Regional Health Information Organization

Guide to Establishing a Regional Health Information Organization

Christina B. Thielst, LFACHE

Softbound, 127pp, 2007

Print: $78.00

Book Description

This book is a comprehensive resource to support and guide those who are exploring or actively involved in community initiatives to establish a regional health information organization (RHIO) to support the interoperable exchange of health information.

This guidebook:

Provides a practical, how-to approach for RHIOs to address financing and the process of evaluating whether a new separate entity is appropriate.

Addresses planning, evaluation and sustainability and how a newly forming RHIO anticipates barriers to long-term survival before the first data is exchanged

Explores HIPAA privacy and security regulations and the need to take applicable state laws and regulations governing the privacy and confidentiality of patient information into account as part of the creation, organization, and operation of a RHIO