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The Central Florida Regional Health Information Organization (CFRHIO) is a comprehensive
knowledge-based network of interoperable systems of clinical, public health and personal
health information that improves health and health care decision-making by making health
information available when and where it is needed.
Vision
Our federated model RHIO will evolve in three to five years. It will improve patient safety,
inform clinical practice, streamline quality improvement and health status monitoring,
accelerate research and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines while lowering health
care costs. Its interoperability will extend to other RHIO’s and the National Health Information
Infrastructure when they are developed.
Organizing Principles
1. Oversight and governance without regard to size or financial leverage of any organization.
2. Collaboration in care delivery with explicit aim of improving health status of all residents.
3. Available to all caregivers and consumers who consent to participate.
4. Compliance with current State and Federal patient privacy regulations.
Governance model
CFRHIO is a public and private collaboration of health care stakeholders covering seven Central
Florida counties (Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, Polk, Brevard and Volusia). Charter conveners
include: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, CIGNA Health Plans of Florida, Central Florida
Inpatient Medicine, Cognoscenti Health Institute, Florida Health Care Coalition, Florida Hospital,
Health Care Center for the Homeless, Health Central, Health First, Humana, Jewett Orthopaedic
Clinic, Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Orlando Heart Group, Orlando Regional Healthcare,
Primary Care Access Network, Physician Associates of Florida, and UnitedHealthcare.
The organization is inclusive and additional participants will be recruited.
The organization currently has five operating committees engaged in task work. Technology is
reviewing available information technology solutions and vendors. Clinical is identifying and
evaluating data information resources including lab, pharmacy, hospital and public health. Legal
is establishing the 501(c)3 entity, reviewing legal barriers and creating participation and consent
agreements. Finance/Governance is securing additional funding and developing a sustainability model.
Education/Communication is designing provider and consumer outreach tools.
The CFRHIO will be a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a seven member Board comprised of the
five committee chairs with two additional members to be appointed from the region at large.
During the planning and assessment phase, the Board and advisors will determine what data sets
will be included initially as well as which organizations have the IT capability to be interfaced.
The RHIO has been endorsed by the Orlando Sentinel and the seven county myregion.org. It also has
support letters from over thirty-six different organizations.
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