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Brailer praises CalRHIO’s progress

Executive Briefings Digest, April 18, 2006

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National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Brailer, MD, PhD, praised the California regional health information organization (CalRHIO) for emerging as a national leader in its efforts to build a statewide health information exchange network.

CalRHIO represents Brailer's "view of how to embarrass every other state into making major changes," reports The San Francisco Business Times. The purpose of CalRHIO is to link various regional health organizations (RHIOs) in California to eventually create a statewide data exchange.

Brailer said other states such as West Virginia and Florida are making impressive strides to develop health information networks that could link across states and regions to create a national network. He spoke in February during the CalRHIO summit in San Francisco.

Organically connecting RHIOs will be more effective than a "top-down" approach regulated by federal officials, Brailer told the Business Times. However, a federal approach might be inevitable if projects such as CalRHIO do not prove their worth to federal policymakers, he added.

Source: Electronic Health Records Briefing

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