RI healthcare providers reach Direct Messaging milestone

摘要

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) recently announced that healthcare providers in Rhode Island have exchanged more than one million messages using Direct, a secure cost-effective way to send protected health infor- mation (PHI) to known, trusted recipients over the Internet. Direct – started in 2010 by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) – makes it pos- sible for healthcare providers to securely email information to other trusted providers, such as hospitals, specialists, pharmacies, and laboratories.