1 / 11

Georgia Health Information Exchange Network

Georgia Health Information Exchange Network. GeorgiaDirect - The Secure Exchange of Health Information February 19 , 2013. Georgia HIE Network FAQs. What is a Health Information Exchange?.

graham
Download Presentation

Georgia Health Information Exchange Network

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Georgia Health Information Exchange Network GeorgiaDirect - The Secure Exchange of Health Information February 19, 2013

  2. Georgia HIE Network FAQs What is a Health Information Exchange? • Technology, business, and policy infrastructure that enables clinical information to move electronically among disparate health information systems • Allowsauthorized providers and users to securely query for and receive patient health information. • Presents a more complete view of the patient – ensuring proper delivery of the right data to the right place at the right time. 2

  3. Georgia HIE Network FAQs Who’s involved [in it’s development]? • A public-private collaborative of healthcare stakeholders from around the state • Georgia Department of Community Health • Georgia Health Information Exchange, Inc., a non-profit 501 (c)(3) • Georgia Health Information Exchange Technology Regional Extension Center • Many other stakeholders in business, technology, healthcare, academia, etc. • Working together to develop and implement a technology, business, and policy infrastructure to sustain a statewide network of networks health information exchange model. 3

  4. Georgia HIE Network FAQs What’s the State’s Role? • DCH collaborates and coordinates with GHIE, Inc. and other state and national stakeholders. • State leverages available funding and HIE assets to facilitate the design, development and implementation of the statewide HIE network in Georgia • Mission and Vision • Technology infrastructure • Legal/privacy policy framework • Business development and financial sustainability planning • Customer value proposition 4

  5. Georgia HIE Network FAQs How will it work? • The Georgia statewide HIE is a network of networks model • Connecting several healthcare organizations and providers • Health-related state agencies, SAHIEs, hospitals, clinics, physician practices, long-term care facilities, payers, labs, pharmacies, telehealth and many more • Enabling real-time exchange of patient health information from one treating provider to another • Clinicians can query the exchange to find their patient’s health information • Reports can be automatically pushed from one provider site to another (lab results and radiology report delivery) • Is not a central repository of clinical data – information remains with the treating provider and only flows when there is authorization. • The Georgia HIE network is also the distribution mechanism for future products and services 5

  6. Georgia HIE Network FAQs What will it look like? • Network Participants • Health-related state agencies • Service Area HIEs • Payers • Healthcare organizations and providers • Labs, ePrescribing • Telehealth • Wellness Partners • Many other participants • Products • GeorgiaDirect (Phase 1) • PatientFinder (Phase 2) • Services • Basic HIE Services • Advanced HIE Services • Patient Focused HIE Services • Value-add HIE Services • Other HIE Services Health information exchange technology, business and financial planning, human resources, consent model, legal, privacy/security and policy framework, internal business processes, marketing and sales, driving customer value, innovation & new growth 6

  7. Georgia HIE Network Georgia HIE Network Products and Services Georgia HIE Network Products The Georgia HIE network offers two types of secure data exchange products: The Georgia HIE network is also the pipeline to distribute future products/services to providers throughout Georgia • GeorgiaDirect –secure email messaging • PatientFinder (working title) – query-based exchange 7

  8. Georgia HIE Network Georgia HIE Network Products and Services 6.29.12 Pilot Launched 11.8.12 Open to all Georgia Providers • First product offered by the Georgia HIE network • A free and easy-to-use service using secure messaging enables authorized providers to securely transmit patient health data to another authorized clinician • Replaces slower, less secure and less reliable forms of patient data exchange such as fax, unsecure email, and phone • Does not replace more robust query-based health information exchange 8

  9. Georgia HIE Network Georgia HIE Network Products and Services Provides a secure way for health care providers to send authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet. h.elthie@ahospital.gadirect.org b.wells@aclinic.gadirect.org 9

  10. Looking Ahead…

  11. www.georgia-hie.orggadirect.net

More Related