The SunCoast RHIO is a Regional Health Information Organization. (see "What is a RHIO?")
This RHIO offers services to the Florida counties of the South West Region. These include Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Okeechobee, Lee, and Collier.
We are a community service organization that connects Health Providers with Consumers. Providers are broadly defined and include Hospitals, Clinics, Doctors, Private Practices, Social Service Agencies, Government, and non MD practitioners. We also work closely with academic institutions, research organizations, and quality, safety, and satisfaction monitoring firms and agencies.
The RHIO provides information, products, and services including but not limited to Electronic Health Records, Personal Health Records, Health Information Exchanges, insurance options, and various Health Care financial services to both providers (Revenue Cycle) and consumers. We are scheduled to become certified as a CMS Health Information Handler under the esMD project, www.cms.gov/esmd, to better serve our providers' government reporting requirements and offer assistance in compliance, ACO formation, and new billing efforts currently underway. Protecting Privacy and confidentiality is a high priority.
The RHIO currently links to our collaborative HIE site: www.HINFlorida.com a Health Information Exchange for our region. We work with our affiliated HIE covering the North East including the New York and New Jersey area and will soon focus on Michigan and Ohio to better serve our winter residents.
Please see our Partner tab for information about services offered through our collaborative arrangements with other organizations.
