AHRQ Sponsors May 14 Webinar on HIE with Frisse, Perez, and Fontaine
Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Health Information Exchange (HIE): Experience from Diverse Care Settings
RESCHEDULED TO FRI, MAY 14, 2010:
3:00 PM Eastern 2:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Mountain, 12:00 PM Pacific
(Originally scheduled for April 26, 2010.)
Revised and excerpted from AHRQ Web site on April 26, 2010
“This free 90-minute teleconference will explore successfully implemented HIE systems and efforts to improve patient care through sustainable electronic exchanges.”
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.”
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.”
Patricia Fontaine, M.D., M.S., “is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She divides her time between teaching and clinical research… She also currently serves as president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians and chair of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians.”
Webinar Summary
“Dr. Frisse will begin the teleconference by providing an overview of advances in developing sustainable HIEs. He will discuss factors that assisted Mid South eHealth Alliance’s successful HIE roll-out to multiple emergency departments and ambulatory care centers with a review of the challenges unique to this setting. Ms. Perez will present strategies used by the Delaware Health Information Network to improve care for patients transitioning between care settings as well as their innovative efforts to reduce the cost of HIEs for providers and payers. Dr. Fontaine will conclude the presentations by examining 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.”
