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May 16, 2007

Privacy, funding doubts shutter Calif. RHIO

The Santa Barbara County (Calif.) Care Data Exchange, the longest-running effort to launch a major U.S. regional health information organization, recently folded because of privacy concerns and doubts about ongoing costs, exchange officials confirmed.

Those issues had dogged the project since it began in 1998, during the first dot-com bubble, as an attempt to establish a medical data-sharing initiative linking competing health care organizations.

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