New Hampshire Connects for Health Next Steps Ned Helms, Director NHIHPP UNH Robert McGrath, PhD, UNH

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New Hampshire Connects for HealthNext
StepsNed Helms, Director NHIHPP UNHRobert
McGrath, PhD, UNH

• Creating a road map for a statewide health
  information sharing network towards a safer,
  higher quality health care system

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Next Steps

• Phase II Defining the Roadmap
• Taking what we heard
• Multi-Stakeholder Effort
• Management by UNH and eHI
• Learn from Other States
• Look to Federal Standards being developed

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Next Steps

• Developing the Road Map
• Work will need to occur in
• five areas
• Privacy and Security
• Governance of the Exchange
• Sustainability of the Exchange
• Clinical Use, Application, and Standards
• Technological Needs and Solutions

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Developing the Road Map

• Privacy and Security Work NGA Contract
• The other groups will need to be formed and their
  work defined
• A time line will need to be established
• Funding will need to be identified

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Keys to Success

• Continued participation from across the health
  care stakeholder community, including public and
  patients
• Learn from what other states have done,
  especially those across our borders
• Build upon what currently exists technologically
• Define those areas that would provide the
  greatest benefit and plan to demonstrate early
  success

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Going Forward

• The Phase I Briefing Paper will be available
  beginning June 23rd at www.nhhic.org or
  www.steppingupnh.org
• A Phase II project work plan will be developed
• Project work groups will be formed, managed by
  UNH and eHI with support from the Citizens
  Health Initiative, funders, and all of you.
• You will be updated through a project list serve
  that will contain information of project
  developments, reports, and ways to participate.

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• The facts we gather- and the ways in which we
  distill and examine those facts to make useable
  information make a very profound statement
  about what we value and how boldly we think Dr.
  David Ross, Executive Director of the Public
  Health Informatics Institute
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