Privacy Policy

CurrentCare, Rhode Island's statewide health information exchange (HIE), is provided as a service of Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI).

CurrentCare is a service that allows patients to make their medical information available to doctors and other authorized medical professionals through a safe, secure computer network called an electronic Health Information Exchange (HIE). Rhode Island state law* protects the privacy and security of patient health information in currentcare including:

• Patients and doctors choose whether or not to participate in currentcare and Participation is strictly voluntary.
• Patients may end their participation in CurrentCare or change who they allow to view their information at any time.
• While a patient’s information is in CurrentCare, it may only be used for treatment purposes, for public health uses allowed by law, and for the administration of the HIE.
• A patient can request a copy of their information from CurrentCare.
• A patient can request a Disclosure Report identifying who has accessed their health information in CurrentCare.
• Patients will be notified of a breach of security of CurrentCare as required by law.
• Individuals who violate the Act are subject to civil and criminal penalties.

*The Rhode Island Health Information Exchange Act of 2008

Our Notice of Privacy Practices can be found here.