Launching the State Level HIE Leadership Forum

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Launching the State Level HIE Leadership Forum

• An Initiative of the State-level HIE Consensus
  Project
• Hyatt Regency Dallas, Texas
• April 30, 2008

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Agenda
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Welcome and Introductions

• Welcome and introductory remarks
• Office of the National Coordinator
• Introductions
• Forum participants
• Staff

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Project Overview

• Targeting organized state-level HIE efforts (not
  to be confused with state government)
• Field research and analysis (9-15 statewide
  initiatives)
• Governance
• Health information exchange policies and
  practices,
• Financial and operational characteristics, and
• Short and long-term priorities for implementation
  and sustainability
• Annual consensus conference to refine guidance
• State-level resources State Level Health
  Information Exchange Initiative Development
  Workbook, programs, presentations
• Input to national HIE strategies, projects
• Series of reports, www.Staterhio.org

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Project Findings and Implications

• State-level HIE governance (and technical) roles
  key to how HIE develops to serve the public good,
  improving health and health care.
• Neutral convening
• Coordination of data sharing policies and
  practices
• Leadership to advance statewide HIE roadmap
• State-level HIE organizational structure and
  empowerment as a public-private collaboration has
  significant policy implications.
• SLHIE sits between state government and health
  sector, serving statewide interests, requires key
  roles played by state government.
• Achieving HIE capacity and sustainability
  requires synergy between state and national
  efforts.
• Governance through AHIC
• NHIN requirements and incentives
• Standards and policy development
• Financing strategies leveraging public-private
  interests, resources

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State Level HIE Consensus ProjectScope -
Collaboration
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
State Level HIE Consensus Project (AHIMA-FORE)
State Alliance for e-Health (NGA)
HISPC (RTI)
Project Partners eHealth Initiative HIMSS NCSL
Eleven (11) States CA, CO, FL, IN, LA, ME, MA,
NY, RI, TN, UT
Project Steering Committee
Reactor Panel
Consensus Conference
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The SLHIE Steering Committee

• Peer group of state-level HIE leaders coalesced
  as a learning community
• Serves as a Project research cohort
• Representation from diverse state environments
  and HIE approaches
• Developing body of shared knowledge, deepening
  level of critical thinking
• Informing state and national HIE development
• Voice for state-level HIE issues, strategic
  concerns and priorities

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Steering Committee

• Committee Members
• Laura L. Adams, President and CEO, Rhode Island
  Quality Institute, Providence, RI
• Antoine Agassi, Director and Chair of the
  Tennessee eHealth Council, Nashville, TN
• Rachel Block, Executive Director, New York
  eHealth Collaborative, New York, NY
• Ray Campbell, Esq., MPA, CEO, Massachusetts
  Health Data Consortium, Waltham, MA,
• Devore Culver, Executive Director, HealthInfoNet,
  Manchester, ME
• Lynn Dierker,RN,Senior Advisor, Colorado Regional
  Health Information Organization, Denver, CO
• Don Holmquest, MD, PhD, JD, CEO, CalRHIO, San
  Francisco, CA
• Beth Nagel, Health Information Manager, Dept of
  Community Health, Michigan Health Information
  Network, Lansing, MI
• Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMI, CEO, Indiana
  Health Information Exchange, Inc.Indianapolis,
  IN
• Gina Perez, Executive Director, Delaware Health
  Information Network, Lewes, DE
• Jan Root, PhD, Executive Director, Utah Health
  Information Network, Murray, UT
• Christopher Sullivan, PhD, Florida Office of
  Health Information Technology, Florida Health
  Information Network, Tallahassee, FL
• Roxane Townsend, MD, Asst. VP, LSU Health
  Systems, Baton Rouge, LA
• Steering Committee Chair
• New in 2008

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Genesis of the Forum

• Growing number of state-level HIE efforts seeking
  to incorporate Project recommendations.
• Pivotal time when state-level HIE perspectives
  should inform the design and implementation of
  AHIC and NHIN.
• Desire to build on experience of the Projects
  Steering Committee
• Further inform Projects research and analysis
  efforts
• Broaden engagement, organize state-level HIE
  shared interests, ensure strong voice

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2008 SLHIE Project Priorities

• Develop an implementation framework
• Governance functions, accountability
  criteria/mechanisms
• Coordinated policies and practices for effective
  data sharing and information use
• Financing strategies, business models and
  developmental pathways
• Support state-level HIE implementation efforts
• Consensus for best practices
• Information/resources
• Influence nationwide HIE implementation
• Voice for state-level HIE perspectives in policy
  development
• Representation in AHIC design and implementation,
  NHIN development

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SLHIE Leadership Forum Goals

• Advance implementation of state-level HIE
  governance functions and organizational roles
• Development/coordination of HIE policies and
  accountability mechanisms
• Advance state-level value propositions, financing
  models and pathways to sustainability
• Develop working model for formal state-level HIE
  representation and participation in AHIC
  governance.

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Activities

• Among Forum participants
• Compile information to monitor and assess
  progress
• Facilitate shared learning
• Provide guidance for state-level HIE
  implementation
• To inform nationwide HIE development
• Facilitate consensus regarding accountability
  criteria and mechanisms, financing strategies
• Synthesize and communicate state-level HIE
  perspectives
• AHIC, NHIN and other HIE development
• Formulate policy recommendations to advance
  state-level HIE interests

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Organizing Principles

• Inclusiveness
• Recognize varying organizational models and
  developmental stages
• Leverage experience, skills and resources, foster
  collaboration, advance emerging best practices
• Support committed Forum participants to build an
  effective learning community and voice for shared
  interests

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Forum Participation

• Recognized or designated state-level HIE leaders
• Public-private partnership governance entity
  and/or public sector (depending on circumstances)
• Three initial categories
• Formal, designated state-level HIE governance
  entities
• Organized entities providing or developing
  state-level HIE governance functions
• Developing state-level HIE initiatives planning
  state-level HIE governance/roadmaps.

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Participant Responsibilities

• Energy, attention, consistent participation
• Teleconferences
• Travel to meetings at participant discretion
• Data reporting
• Information sharing
• Ability to represent interests and voice from
  state-level perspective

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Forum Leadership and Organization

• Leadership and guidance by Project Steering
  Committee and staff
• Telecommunications support and materials
  (electronic)
• Optional meeting attendance
• Peer interest groups TBD
• Information sharing through Web, reporting
  template

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Discussion

• What will make this valuable to you?

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Next Steps

• Information gathering
• Email request will be sent for key information
• Provide/revise demographics about your
  state-level effort, contact information ( a
  template will be provided)
• Provide copies of relevant state-level resource
  documents (roadmap, business plans, etc.)
• Identify Priorities
• Staff will synthesize input to identify relevant
  participant stages of development, interests,
  topics and timelines for Forum activities in
  conjunction with the Projects overall work plan.
• Scheduling
• Information will be sent via email regarding a
  schedule of activities.