Rhode Island Quality Institute

Health information exchange - this program leads a community-based effort to design, develop and continue ongoing expansion of a statewide health information exchange (hie). The hie is a secure, confidential way to make information accessible to appropriate parties.

Innovation - the goal of this program at the Institute is to be a trusted enabler of data-driven decision-making for health and healthcare statewide. This is achieved by supporting health and high Quality cost-effective patient and family-centered healthcare, by delivering accurate comprehensive timely reports and analyses to drive informed decisions by the key stakeholders in the community, including patients, providers of care, payers, policy makers, and businesses. The program manages, aggregates and transforms disparate data into actionable information, uncovering patterns, correlations and unique insights critical to the transformation of the healthcare system and supporting data driven paradigms to enable the quadruple aim.