HIE & RHIO

Elumin delivers its portfolio of services in three service arenas in our HIE – RHIO practice. Listed below is a brief overview of those arenas and how they are applied to support your HIE – RHIO initiative.  To learn more, please see our Downloads page.

HIE Planning
Elumin assists communities, regions, and states in developing plans for the exchange of health information. The following activities are provided as examples of work associated with this core service:

  • Performing education on important aspects of health information exchange
  • Providing assistance with project scaling, funding availability, success criteria, frameworks for incremental sustainability and governance, roles and expectations, ROI, and privacy and security
  • Building stakeholder consensus and establishing clinical, technical, and financial teams to plan for success and determine readiness to transition to HIE business and development stages

HIE Business Development
Elumin develops business strategies and plans designed to identify the most viable approach to implementing HIE within a community, region or state. Assuming that the majority of planning activities have been performed, the following activities are provided as examples of work associated with the core service of business development:

  • Developing clinician adoption plans, governance frameworks, technical architectures for HIE, and strategies and plans for developing a sustainable HIE
  • Performing comprehensive assessments of the availability, technical capability, and usage of electronic clinical data among all data generators and data users including clinician capabilities, readiness, and expectations
  • Identifying and developing measurements for the expected impact to care delivery, provider and patient satisfaction, and the potential for savings and improved efficiency based on desired functionality while considering approaches to authorization, authentication, access and audit of health information

HIE Implementation
Elumin provides personnel resources to lead the establishment of an HIE/RHIO organization and lead the implementation of a health information exchange initiative. Assuming that the majority of business development activities have been performed, the following activities are provided as examples of work associated with the core service of implementation:

  • Developing approaches to patient consent, education, and phased implementation
  • Identifying, evaluating, and selecting vendor solutions to include request for information (RFI) and request for proposal (RFP) processes
  • Identifying and quantifying sources of revenue from stakeholders, local and state government, and public and private funding sources
  • Developing business plans, financial statements and expected return on investment (ROI) based on functionality to be implemented and expectations for financial sustainability