title: Fledgling firms offer hope on health costs.
abstract: Julia Adler-Milstein and Ashish Jha Regional health information organizations--RHIOs--are springing up in the United States to meet a vital need: to connect the nation's disparate patient-health information systems. If RHIOs can find a viable business model, they stand to improve the quality and decrease the cost of U.S. health care dramatically.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. jadlermilstein@hbs.edu
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adler-Milstein
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jha
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D017048:Health Care Costs; D007221:Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007256:Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012040:Regional Health Planning; D014481:United States