Rhode Island to Statewide Health Information Exchange System with EDS

A well-funded and designed "backbone" will greatly facilitate transfer of information from the multiple IT silos: doctors' and hospitals' EHRs. SV

Rhode Island is now one step closer to implementing a health information system that will allow physicians, with their patient's permission, to access important patient health data from a variety of sources when and where it is needed. The State has chosen Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), and its subcontractor InterSystems Corporation, to build and integrate the necessary technology and software.

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