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The Diagnostic Information
System (sm)
Strategy and Next Steps:
•Strategy of multiple public-private patent licensing
partnerships offers the Rhode
Island HIE Project and its emulators in other states low risk and high ROI in creating an essential clinical IT
functionality with tangible
financial, patient safety and quality of care benefits.
•Multiple Tangible Benefits: Rhode Island as the first
state-level HIE to solve the
test results information management problem. Replicable in all other states and internationally. Creating a new
sustainable private funding
source and an additional electronic success story from the Rhode Island EDC’s Business Innovation Factory
(BIF).
NEXT STEPS:
•Collaborating with RIQI, RIDOH, and their chosen IT
vendors EDS, InterSystems
Corp. and Health Language, Inc. to incorporate the unique DIS functionality
into the Rhode Island HIE Project infrastructure.
•Continuing the development, testing and roll-out of the
DIS standard format in
Rhode Island as a value-added feature of Polaris Medical Management’s Epichart EHR, other CCHIT-certified EHRs
and the ERcard, LLC stand-alone
PHR.