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	February 13, 2006 Regional Health Information Organizations' Modest Start What's Been Built, What's Driving Progress, And When Will They Flourish? by Eric G. Brown with Bradford J. Holmes, Will McEnroe

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Executive Summary

The US healthcare sector is embarking on a massive effort to implement connectivity among doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, and other healthcare institutions to give healthcare providers a complete view of a patient's medical information. The goal? Improve the quality of care, avert medical errors, and save billions of dollars eliminating redundant diagnostic procedures, preventable health complications, delays waiting for paper charts, and other inefficiencies in the healthcare system. But these are early days. Forrester found seven small regional networks in operation today with wide variability in architecture and governance models. The rest of the country will follow, but more slowly than advocates expect, as stakeholders cast about to find the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to build a national network.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Clinical Informatics And Information Sharing Is Transforming Healthcare
• The State Of RHIOs Today
• The Difference Between RHIOs
• Getting To A National Network

WHAT IT MEANS

• The Slow Start For RHIOs Will Affect All Healthcare Stakeholders
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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