Regional Health Information Organization

This assignment facilitates comprehensive knowledge transfer in regard to the
components, infrastructure, and functionality of the regional health information
organization (RHIO).
Scenario:
You have been hired as the director of public health informatics for the Centervale
County Department of Public Health because you have valuable knowledge about the
functionality and functioning of RHIOs. This is what you have learned about Centervale’s
plans:
 The Centervale County department of public health plans to deploy a county-wide
RHIO.
 The department requires healthcare establishments and practitioners in the county to
migrate from a paper-based health records system to an electronic medical records
(EMR) system within the next five years.
 The department also requires all practitioners to connect to the county Health
Information Exchange set up by the RHIO within the next five years.
Directions:
Your primary responsibility is to propose policies and mandates that ensure maintenance
of confidentiality and privacy of protected health information. Keeping that in mind,
prepare a 10–12-slide PowerPoint presentation for the Centervale County Department of
Public Health officials that includes the following:
1. Discuss the challenges of privacy and confidentiality within the history and evolution of
public health informatics.
1. What opportunities will the migration to an EHR and the implementation of a
RHIO provide to address these challenges?

2. Address the following issues with establishing a county-wide RHIO:
1. Identify and discuss the privacy concerns about the collection and distribution
of health information across the RHIO.
2. Describe the access rights of individuals and any groups to the data collected
and stored by the RHIO.
3. Identify and explain interoperability standards deployed by the RHIO.
3. Propose a list of policies and mandates that would ensure maintenance of
confidentiality and privacy of protected health information as mentioned in the above
issues.
4. Evaluate and identify the best tools or system of public health informatics to manage
the county’s public health information and explain how that tool or system will uphold
privacy.
1. Give examples of how key public health information systems in the United
States use these policies and mandates to guarantee the security,
confidentiality, and accessibility of the data they contain.
2. Describe some of the search tools available to locate and analyze public
health data.

5. Examine how the policies, mandates, tools, and standards that have evolved in the
development of RHIOs might contribute to a global strategy for use of information
technology (IT) in healthcare to reduce health inequity.

Use the PowerPoint Notes pane on each slide to explain your discussion points as if you
were actually presenting this information to a group.
Include citations of appropriate laws and regulations to justify your positions.
Include a reference slide in APA style.
Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical
scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate
spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

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Regional health information organization is responsible for integration and motivation of health networks. It assists in the development of quality and safety measures that enhance technological application and this increase the efficiency of the operation of the health sector. There is assessment of the regional resources that guide the management of organizations and this helps in the analysis of the growth in healthcare and the motivation towards increased .performance. The complexity of the healthcare systems create the need to focus on incorporation of standards (Franke et al., 2013)…………

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