November 18, 2009
CMIO HIE
By Ryan McBride
States are expected to receive this money, which was made available through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, at varying levels of readiness to deploy statewide health information networks. Indiana and Utah have considerable infrastructure already in place, for example, while Vermont and West Virginia are in the nascent phases of planning exchanges. This means that many budding health information exchanges are still deciding which IT tools and architectures are most suitable. These exchanges can learn a lot from operational regional HIEs (also known as regional health information organizations, or RHIOs) in places such as in Indiana, New York, and Wisconsin.