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Article: Pay for performance: a win for the NHIN? During a recent conversation with a healthcare CIO, the subject of the National Health Information Network and Regional Health Information Organizations came up.(DIGITAL PERSPECTIVES)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
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- August 1, 2005
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My friend expressed skepticism that either would ever become a reality. It seems that many healthcare IT leaders at least the ones with more than a little gray hair recall the passing of the Community Health Information Networks of the mid- 1990s and see parallels to it in the present NHIN-RHIO efforts. There is growing evidence that the skeptics will be wrong.
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