Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Health Information Exchange (HIE): Experience from Diverse Care Settings
National Web-Based Teleconference on Health Information Exchange
Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Health Information Exchange (HIE): Experience from Diverse Care Settings
This free 90-minute teleconference will explore successfully implemented HIE systems and efforts to improve patient care through sustainable electronic exchanges.
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m., EDT
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health IT
Presenters:
• Mark Frisse, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. He created and directed a federal- and state-sponsored HIE in the greater Memphis area with over 5 million records covering the care of over 1,200,000 individuals. He is co-chair of the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Common Framework policy group developing model data sharing agreements as well as a member of the American Medical Association’s Health Information Policy Committee. Dr. Frisse has also served as a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean at the Washington University School of Medicine, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Express Scripts and played a role in developing consumer web sites, the DrugDigest.org consumer resource, and RxHub.
• Patricia Fontaine, M.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She divides her time between teaching and clinical research and currently serves as President of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians. She has extensive experience in practice-based research through the Minnesota Academy of Family Physician Research Network. Her funded work for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has focused on topics of national importance for primary care, including Health Information Exchange, Medical Office Safety, and the Patient- Centered Medical Home.
• Gina Perez, M.P.A., is President of Advances in Management, Inc., a management consulting firm. Since 2004, Advances in Management has been engaged by the Delaware Health Information Network to provide project direction for the Health Information Exchange Project—a statewide effort to create an interoperable health care system in Delaware. In this role, Ms. Perez provides strategic direction and day-to-day executive management for the DHIN reporting to the Board of Directors. In the spring of 2007, the Delaware Health Information Network went live and became the first statewide health information exchange in the nation. She also serves on the Department of Health and Human Services Standards Committee, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology HIE Certification Workgroup, the State Level HIE Steering Committee and the Statewide HIE Coalition.
Dr. Frisse will begin the teleconference by providing an overview of advances in developing sustainable HIEs. He will discuss his experience with Vanderbilt University, the State of Tennessee, and the Mid South eHealth Alliance developing a successful HIE operational for four years in emergency departments and ambulatory care centers throughout the greater Memphis area. Dr. Fontaine will present the barriers to participation in community-wide HIEs. She will explain the challenges faced by small and medium-sized primary care practices and her experiences working with these practices in Minnesota. Ms. Perez will conclude the event by presenting successful strategies used by the Delaware Health Information Network to overcome barriers and improve care for patients transitioning between care settings as well as their innovative efforts to reduce the cost of HIEs for providers and payers.
Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Health Information Exchange (HIE): Experience from Diverse Care Settings
This free 90-minute teleconference will explore successfully implemented HIE systems and efforts to improve patient care through sustainable electronic exchanges.
Date: May 14, 2010
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m., EDT
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health IT
Presenters:
• Mark Frisse, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. He created and directed a federal- and state-sponsored HIE in the greater Memphis area with over 5 million records covering the care of over 1,200,000 individuals. He is co-chair of the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Common Framework policy group developing model data sharing agreements as well as a member of the American Medical Association’s Health Information Policy Committee. Dr. Frisse has also served as a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean at the Washington University School of Medicine, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Express Scripts and played a role in developing consumer web sites, the DrugDigest.org consumer resource, and RxHub.
• Patricia Fontaine, M.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She divides her time between teaching and clinical research and currently serves as President of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians. She has extensive experience in practice-based research through the Minnesota Academy of Family Physician Research Network. Her funded work for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has focused on topics of national importance for primary care, including Health Information Exchange, Medical Office Safety, and the Patient- Centered Medical Home.
• Gina Perez, M.P.A., is President of Advances in Management, Inc., a management consulting firm. Since 2004, Advances in Management has been engaged by the Delaware Health Information Network to provide project direction for the Health Information Exchange Project—a statewide effort to create an interoperable health care system in Delaware. In this role, Ms. Perez provides strategic direction and day-to-day executive management for the DHIN reporting to the Board of Directors. In the spring of 2007, the Delaware Health Information Network went live and became the first statewide health information exchange in the nation. She also serves on the Department of Health and Human Services Standards Committee, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology HIE Certification Workgroup, the State Level HIE Steering Committee and the Statewide HIE Coalition.
Dr. Frisse will begin the teleconference by providing an overview of advances in developing sustainable HIEs. He will discuss his experience with Vanderbilt University, the State of Tennessee, and the Mid South eHealth Alliance developing a successful HIE operational for four years in emergency departments and ambulatory care centers throughout the greater Memphis area. Dr. Fontaine will present the barriers to participation in community-wide HIEs. She will explain the challenges faced by small and medium-sized primary care practices and her experiences working with these practices in Minnesota. Ms. Perez will conclude the event by presenting successful strategies used by the Delaware Health Information Network to overcome barriers and improve care for patients transitioning between care settings as well as their innovative efforts to reduce the cost of HIEs for providers and payers.
Seminar Date:
May 14, 2010