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Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption
Ehealth - Goals and Tasks
The Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption will serve a number of related, but disparate, functions. The first will to be act as a clearinghouse for information concerning the national development of various Health Technology system platforms and electronic delivery platforms for medical records. The second task is to coordinate national education concerning the importance of HIT/EMR developments to both providers and consumers of health care. The final task of the Center will be to elucidate the integral role of HIT/EMR development within the specific context of the Patient Centered Medical Home model and expand upon the provision with the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home as written by the ACP, AAFP, AOA, and the AAP.
The Center will convene and report out at general meetings of the PCPCC progress towards achieving the following goals/objectives:
Short-Term
The Center will convene and report out at general meetings of the PCPCC progress towards achieving the following goals/objectives:
Short-Term
- Conduct an industry wide survey of open info exchanges systems to begin placing the Center as the nationwide clearinghouse information.
- 4-6 weeks begin to release guidance for the proper implementation of HIT/EMR on a largely interoperable basis built upon the survey of open info exchanges.
- Reach out to the three major EMR info data base development projects; Microsoft Health Vault, Google Health, and Dossia.
- Develop system models to ensure the broad scale implementation of HIT/EMR implementation.
- Broad educational efforts to highlight the importance of HIT/EMR in the improvement of health care quality and cost containment.
- Track all major future developments of eHealth initiatives.
Ehealth - Updates and Contact
The Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption will serve a number of related functions. The first will to be act as a clearinghouse for information concerning the national development of various Health Technology system platforms and electronic delivery platforms for medical records. The second task is to coordinate national education concerning the importance of HIT/EMR developments to both providers and consumers of health care. The final task of the Center will be to elucidate the integral role of HIT/EMR development within the specific context of the Patient Centered Medical Home model and expand upon the provision with the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home as agreed to by the ACP, AAFP, AOA, and the AAP.
We encourage any interested Collaborative members to join us every other week on Wednesdays from 2-3pm EDT for our regularly scheduled conference calls.
For those who are interested in participating with this Center, please contact Chris Nohrden (nohrden@us.ibm.com) or Joe Grundy at jgrundy@pcpcc.net or call 202.789.2577.