RHIO Report: Rochester RHIO helps CDC identify impact of HPV Vaccine through project with University of Rochester

August 2018

Rochester RHIO helps CDC identify impact of HPV Vaccine through Project with University of Rochester

Clinical data from Rochester RHIO is playing a major role in assisting the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to gauge the impact of HPV vaccinations. Through a CDC-sponsored project with the Center for Community Health and Prevention of the University of Rochester, Rochester RHIO has provided anonymized clinical information from around the region regarding cervical cancer screenings and trends. This precise utilization data, as well as data from locations in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Tennessee, is being securely shared for the HPV Vaccine Impact Monitoring (HPV IMPACT) project, which monitors the incidence of precancerous cervical lesions and cervical cancer. Learn more...

Also: WXXI: Rochester RHIO data used in federal vaccine study

Remembering Gloria

For nearly 10 years, Gloria Hitchcock poured herself into everything she did at Rochester RHIO. Her vivacious, enthusiastic spirit was a wonder. Throughout our region, Gloria listened to our partners and brought them solutions. She cared deeply about her family, her co-workers, and our community.

We lost Gloria on July 29, 2018 after a courageous battle with cancer. The RHIO team will miss Gloria greatly….

Memorial donations can be made in her name to either the Ontario-Yates Hospice, or the American Cancer Society.

With kindness,

Jill Eisenstein

Rochester RHIO mentioned in HealthIT.gov white paper

Rochester RHIO's health information exchange was mentioned in a white paper recently published on HealthIT.gov. It is called, " Electronic End-of-Life and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Documentation Access through Health Information Exchange (HIE) . " The New York State story is available on pages 14 - 19.

Rochester RHIO is a proud supporter of MOLST & eMOLST in New York. A single login for eMOLST and Rochester RHIO participants is available to authorized users.

For more information, call the Rochester RHIO Support Center at 1-877-865-7446 (RHIO).

Medical Director's Corner: Just so YOU know...

This month's issue highlights a very important upgrade of a new RHIO Explore feature called Patient Care Network. It also has a self-service feature called MyCommunity Profile, which allows physicians to make updates to their own contact information, so that all of us can correctly reach each other.

What is the Patient Care Network? It is a chronology of a patient’s clinical encounters with physicians and healthcare providers from across the Rochester RHIO region. It also provides contact information for a patient’s care team for each encounter in a user-friendly view.

Read more in Dr. Kothari's latest monthly letter .

System Implementation change: Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health (RRH) has implemented a system change which prevents faxed forwarding of imaging results from other facilities in our service area. Community-based providers with Rochester RHIO’s MyResults Delivered service will no longer receive RRH faxes of imaging studies, in addition to the version received from the original source.

Rochester Regional Health and Rochesster RHIO are grateful to the MyResults Delivered Practices who initially reported this matter. We appreciate your patience as solutions were thoroughly tested and implemented. That said, RRH has asked that any erroneous faxing of radiology reports by them be submitted to their help desk at 585-922-4357.

Process change announcement: UR Medicine Labs

In response to concerns from members of our provider community, UR Medicine Labs is now implementing a process change for community providers’ lab orders. We will stop the practice of combining orders from two or more community providers and all community provider orders will be processed and drawn exactly as written. We recognize that the effort to combine lab draws had undesirable and unintended consequence for some providers and greatly appreciate your feedback and help resolving this concern.

The change was implemented last month (July) and will be completed no later than October of this year. We thank you for your patience and for your partnership in the pursuit of better patient care.

Share your health story

Common Ground Health is gathering health stories from as many residents of Rochester, the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier as possible. Please take the survey at MyHealthStory2018.com or MiHistoriadeSalud2018.com and share the link with colleagues, friends and family. Answers will be kept confidential and are needed to improve the health of our region. Survey participants can enter for a chance to win a $500 gift card. Thank you!

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