Table 1 Critical Tasks for RHIOs
From: Sustainable health information exchanges: the role of institutional factors
Task | Description | Why needed |
|---|---|---|
Identifying who’s who | Sifting through different medical record numbers used by different medical providers and health systems to determine what records belong to a patient. | Resistance to using a unique universal identifier. |
Melding disparate records into a coherent picture | Combine medical records for a particular patient across disparate providers and present an intelligible picture for the clinician. | Health providers over spectrum of community and hospital are fragmented without a common medical record and without common data standards. |