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Michigan adds another RHIO

Executive Briefings Digest, January 24, 2006

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Lansing, MI-based healthcare providers, educators, and state officials announced plans in November to develop a regional health information organization (RHIO) to reduce costs and medical errors and allow officials to monitor health trends, The State News reports. The proposed project will cost $3 million and stakeholders plan to complete the network within two years, The Lansing State Journal reports.

The system would give community physicians secure access to patients' electronic health records. Sparrow Hospital, Ingham Regional Medical Center, and Michigan State University each donated $100,000 to create the exchange. The Michigan Department of Community Health matched the funding, but the project still needs an additional $2.4 million, The Lansing State Journal reports. Committee members are gathering technology resources and working with a consultant from the Michiana Health Information Network, an RHIO in South Bend, IN, that has been operational for five years. Click here for more information about the Michigan RHIO.

Source: Electronic Health Records Briefing

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