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Introduction
Regional Health Information Organization also known as RHIO is the Health Information Exchange Organization which sits under the Nationwide Health Information Network. NHIN describes technologies, standards, laws, policies, programs, and practices that enable health information to be shared. The purpose of the RHIO organization is to facilitate a health information exchange; which is the transfer of healthcare information electronically across organizations. The reason for HIE is to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of healthcare as well as access to healthcare through the efficient application of health information technology.
Pros & Cons
The goals for NHIN are to achieve nationwide health information exchange through the vision of utilizing information technology solutions to cut costs, avoid medical mistakes, and improve health care in America through the goals of informing clinical practice, interconnecting clinicians, personalize care, and improving population health. The pros to these goals are that of identifiers. The physician’s identity is authenticated via his or her provider number issued by the payer to whom the claim will ultimately be submitted. The identity of the patient to whom care was delivered is authenticated via his or her payer-issued member number. The clearinghouse only needs to validate those two pieces of information and the accuracy of the claims codes before submitting the claim to the payer on behalf of the provider. (Roop, 2008) Also NHIN provides simplicity, faster access to data, better privacy, and data appearance in uniform.
The con to this is that multiple providers may be seeking access to any individual patient’s information for a variety of reasons and two types of er...

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...ge the community should see the tangible results of the HIE operations. (Evaluating a Potential HIE Opportunity, 2009)

Works Cited

Evaluating a Potential HIE Opportunity. (2009, November). Retrieved from HIMSS Guide to Participating in HIE : http://www.himss.org/files/HIMSSorg/content/files/2009EvaluatingPotentialHIEOpportunity.pdf
Jamison, S. (n.d.). On the Road to RHIO: What State CIOs Need to Know. Retrieved from Nascio: http://www.nascio.org/publications/documents/nascio-ontheroadtorhio.pdf
Roop, E. S. (2008, December 8). Does the NHIN Already Exist? For the Record, p. 14. Retrieved from http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_120808p14.shtml
Rosenfeld, S., Koss, S., & Siler, S. (2007, June). Privacy, Security, and the Regional Health Information Organization. Retrieved from All Health: http://www.allhealth.org/briefingmaterials/chcf-rhioprivacy-1091.pdf