Technical Advisory Committee Ad Hoc Report on HIE Planning

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Technical Advisory Committee Ad Hoc Report on HIE
Planning

• SD eHealth Collaborative Meeting, May 15th 2009

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Committee Description

• Section 4.13 of SD eHealth Collaborative Bylaws
• The primary role of the Technical Advisory
  Committee is to provide leadership and make
  recommendations to the SD eHealth collaborative
  on the technical issues and requirements related
  to state-wide health information technology
  efforts in South Dakota. As a part of that role,
  the committee will work with health care
  providers, health care systems, and consumers
  among others to identify key issues and
  requirements from a technical standpoint which
  will be necessary for planning and implementing
  an electronic health information exchange and
  related efforts in South Dakota.

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Preliminary Draft of HIE Planning Steps and
Vendor Selection Criteria

• Identification of data elements to be exchanged
• Privacy and Security considerations for
• Data in use
• Data stored
• Data in motion
• Data disposed

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Criteria (2) Contd.

• Vendor CCHIT Certified
• Compliance with various standards
• Standard requirments based on data elements
  (Demographics, problem list, medications, labs,
  images etc.)
• Messaging HL7 2.X
• Vocabulary SNOMED-CT, LOINC, X12, UCUM
• Images DICOM
• Connectivity HTTPS, SSL, SOAP, WS
• More at http//geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2009/04/da
  ta-elements-of-ehr.html
• Authentication issues How are people going to
  authenticate

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Criteria (3) Contd.

• Connectivity Issues
• Inter-state connectivity
• Exchange data with bordering states
• Acceptable formats of data exchange
• Wire, USB Flash drive, RFID, Embedded chips
• Limit scope to meet federal standards