Question

Explain how ACOs, RHIOs, and HIEs contribute to the ONC’s goal of nationwide electronic health record implementation and sharing. Also, explain the challenges each of these types of organizations faces in relation to meeting this goal.

Answer 1

Office of the National Coordinator(ONC) Health IT goal to effort nationwide provide EHR to avoid patient medical errors and eliminate paper records. Accountable care organizations (ACO) provide cost-effective, coordinated care to medicare users. Health and Human Services(HHS) and ONC improve EHR interoperability. using the data and access to EHR technology, effective care coordination makes ACOs ensure better health for patients.RHIOs(Regional health information organization)share health-related information electronically and accept HIT standards including user-interface features with the EHR system of the stakeholders. HIE(Health Information Exchange) allows physician, nurse and other health care providers to access and secure patient information electronically. It improves safety, quality and reduces the cost of patient care.
ACO faces challenges from physician burnout because of EHR managing workload due to incomplete data, poor coordination of care.ACOs help HIEs to offer service network. There is a lack of provider adoption and necessary information and a lack of accuracy in data and risk stratification. RHIOs sharing problems with system utilization, user experience leads to less usage of HIE. HIE has challenges in increasing provider adoption, implementation, HIE system over different geographic regions.