Action and Implementation Manual (AIM) from ONC’s HISPC
How-to guide for state actions and multi-state cooperation for health care privacy and security issues, released in June 2009 by Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC). See these two links to access related stories and AIM report.
AIM: http://www.e-healthcaremarketing.com/archives/259
Articles: http://www.e-healthcaremarketing.com/archives/222
Provider Tool Kit: http://www.secure4health.org
Background to Complicated Game of HISPC Privacy and Security Collaboratives:
Written by Journal of AHIMA staff writer Chris Dimick, for May 2009 issue, article describes three years of work that culminated in handoff of Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC).
Connecting for Health Common Framework
from Markel Foundation
“The Connecting for Health Common Framework: Resources for Implementing Private and Secure Health Information Exchange is a set of free resources for individuals and organizations interested and ready to create private and secure health information exchange. The approach is such that information exchange can take place among existing and future health care networks over the Internet if all participants adhere to a small set of shared rules.” Produced by public-private collaborative of over 100 organizations led by the Markle Foundation, Connecting for Health is led and managed by Markle staff, and funded by Markle and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Common Framework Pages:
Connecting Professionals: Private and Secure Information Exchange
Connecting Consumers: Network Personal Health Information
Connecting All Health Decision Makers: Population Data Analysis and Action
NGA /U. of Massachusetts Medical School Report on
Public Governance Models for a Sustainable Health Information Exchange Industry
John Thomasian, director of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, the organizing body for the State Alliance for e-Health said on February 24, 2009 “This report can serve as a valuable starting point for states as they consider governance strategies for building, sustaining, and protecting a system to support electronic health record.”
“The report details three conceptual models of public governance that could lead to the practice of sustainable HIE and delves into specific rationale and description, legal structure and financing and accountability considerations for each model.”
Press Release: “States Play Critical Role in Advancing Health Information Technology” February 24, 2009
Report to the State Alliance for E-Health (pdf) Appendices (pdf)
Slides for February 24, 2009 State Alliance Meeting (pdf)
Conference Webcast
An Information Infrastructure for New Jersey Healthcare:
A Vision for 21st Century Health Care System (pdf)
Section V, Chapter 16 from the 2008 Final Report of New Jersey
Commission on Rationalizing Health Care Resources
“This chapter briefly explores the reasons for the lack of adequate information systems in health care, sketches the vision of a 21st Century health-care information system, examines how much of that vision has been achieved by now in New Jersey or is actively being pursued, and finally offers some recommendations to move New Jersey health care towrd an information platform that adequately serves the state’s people.”
Final Subcommittee Report with List of its Members (pdf)
