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Rhode Island Health Information Exchange in the works
EHR Connection, August 6, 2007
The Rhode Island Department of Health announced July 30 that it granted the state's Medicaid fiscal agent a three-year contract for a first time statewide EHR network-the RI Health Information Exchange-according to the Providence Business News. The project is expected to go live in the summer of 2008.
The three year contract, which amounts to $1.7 million, will include the design, implementation, and management of this new network, which promises to merge RI residents' health information, and provide authorized health professionals with a more comprehensive PHR.
"With the creation of a statewide Health Information Exchange, doctors will be able to look up their patient's critical health information, giving them a more complete understanding of their patients and allowing them to provide higher quality, safer, more coordinated care," David R. Gifford, RI director of health, told the Providence Business News.
To read the Providence Business News article, click here.
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