Unit 8: Health Information Exchange: Lecture A: Introduction

Unit 8: Health Information Exchange: Lecture A: Introduction

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Unit 8: Health Information Exchange: Lecture A: Introduction
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Unit 8: Health Information Exchange
Description:
This unit covers the reasons why health information exchange is an important part of a modern healthcare system, the challenges that exist in achieving health information exchange at a national level, some of the strategies adopted to promote health information exchange – for example, health information exchange organizations, Direct and Meaningful Use – and future directions for health information exchange.
Goals:
1. List the quality problems in healthcare that the exchange of health information should solve.
2. Describe the nature of the health information technology assets that are to be connected through the exchange of health information.
3. Explain the motivations, capabilities, and challenges of health information exchange organizations (HIEOs).
4. Explain the motivations, opportunities, and challenges of using Meaningful Use and Direct to promote health information exchange.
5. Describe future directions for health information exchange.
Lectures:
A. Introduction (MM:SS)
1. Reasons for exchanging health information
2. Scenarios for health information exchange
3. Quality of care
4. Healthcare expenditures
5. Strategy for building a national health information infrastructure
6. Mid-2000s: US Healthcare Landscape
7. National Health Information Network (NHIN)
8. Mid-2000s: Approaches to Establishing Interconnected Infrastructure
B. Health Information Exchange Organizations (MM:SS)
1. Challenges for interconnecting hospitals/large organizations
2. Health information exchange organizations
3. Examples: SHIN-NY (State Health Information Network-New York) and Healthix
4. Problems
5. Status
6. Impact
7. Barriers to scaling
8. Worries
C. Promote exchange of health information through meaningful use and direct (MM:SS)
1. Meaningful Use Program
2. Adoption of EPDs
3. Objectives for meaningful use and interoperability
4. Challenges
5. Criticism/consequences
6. Status
7. Targeted exchange
D. Future Directions for Health Information Exchange (MM:SS)
1. General status of health information exchange
2. Commonwell Health Alliance
3. The Sequoia Project
4. The Argonaut Project
5. Interoperability measures
6. ONC Roadmap for Ten Years of Interoperability

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