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Coordinating Activities
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Florida's Health Information Infrastructure
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The mission of the Governor’s Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board is to promote the development and implementation of a health information infrastructure in Florida that is capable of drawing together critical health information from multiple sources and presenting that information to authorized parties in a usable format to support sound decisions about health by providers, consumers, public health officials and researchers, when and where needed. The Board will advise and support the Agency for Health Care Administration in the development of legislative recommendations, educational initiatives and public-private partnerships that promote the adoption of electronic medical records, interoperability of systems, and decision support tools for clinicians and health care consumers.
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URL: www.fdhc.state.fl.us
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The American Medical Infomatics
Association |
The American Medical Infomatics Association
is a membership organization dedicated to developing and using information
technologies to improve health care. There are many initiatives and interests
among AMIA members. The
minutes
of a workshop on "Open Source in Support of the NHII" at the NHII03
national meeting outlines an approach to advancing the use of the open source
process in furthering NHII.
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URL: www.amia.org |
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A program of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology which accelerates the development of
innovative technologies for broad national benefit by co-funding R&D
partnerships with the private sector. This supports NIST's mission of
developing and promoting measurement, standards, and technology to enhance
productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life. The
Information
Infrastructure for Healthcare (IIH) program specifically funds projects
that are aimed at developing technologies that will support a National Health
Information Infrastructure. |
URL: www.atp.nist.gov
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Connecting for Health is a public-private
collaborative of the Markle Foundation that
will advance an interconnected, electronic national health information
infrastructure by focusing on adopting national clinical data standards for
interoperability, ensuring secure and private transmission of medical
information and working to understand consumers needs and expectations from an
interconnected health information system. |
URL: www.connectingforhealth.org |
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One of 24 projects launched as part of the President's
e-Government initiative, which aims to improve government efficiency,
effectiveness, and responsiveness to citizens, while making it easier for
citizens to obtain services and interact with the Federal government. The CHI
involves all Federal agencies relating to health care, including the Department
of Defense, Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the
National Institutes for Health. This project will "provide the basis for a
simplified and unified system for sharing and revising medical information
among government agencies and their private healthcare providers and
insurers
and enable a single mechanism for making records
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The EHealth
Initiative is a public-private sector collaboration for Public Health
of 100 health care organizations. Their focus is on an interconnected
electronic health information infrastructure by promoting the adoption of
clinical data standards and interoperability. The initiative includes
involvement of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), public health agencies,
providers, standards organizations, and health care IT suppliers to develop and
implement strategies to transmit electronic data of public health importance
(e.g. lab results, microbiology results, orders, and chief complaint data)
using operable standards and CDC's National Electronic Disease Surveillance
System (NEDSS) |
URL: www.ehealthinitiative.org |
Chair: Marc Overhage, MD, PhD |
HHS
Initiative |
William Yasnoff MD, PhD, Senior Advisor to the NHII, serves
the lead role at the Department of Health and Human Services, to advance the
NHII initiative. By disseminating the NHII vision, collaborating with
stakeholders from both the public and private sectors, and convening all
parties via the establishment of the first national NHII meeting, he serves
to highlight the Government's role as facilitator to this initiative. |
URL: aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii/ |
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The National Alliance for Health Information Technology
(NAHIT) was created in June 2002 by the American Hospital Association along
with 29 other organizations to improve quality and performance through
standards-based information systems. It will focus on projects that will
contribute to the development of a viable health information infrastructure.
Its initial focus has been on standardized bar codes on products used by health
care organizations. |
URL: www.nahit.org/ |
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The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
(NCVHS) is the advisory body to HHS and Congress on health information
policy. NCVHS has taken a critical leadership role in driving the creation of
an NHII, including the creation of the report "Information for Health: A
Strategy for Building a National Health Information Infrastructure", which was
published in November 2001. |
NHII Workgroup
Membership |
Chair for NHII Workgroup: John R. Lumpkin, MD, MPH |
Lead for NHII Staff: Mary Jo Deering, PhD |
URL: www.ncvhs.hhs.gov
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The National Health Database is a national databank
under development by the Kanter Family Foundation. It is based on
evidence-based medicine and health outcomes research that patients and health
care providers can use together to make better-informed decisions about how to
tackle illnesses. This comprehensive and confidential database of patients'
treatment experiences would help determine which treatments work best for
specific diseases and conditions. The database would foster constructive
communication between patients and health care providers. |
URL: www.healthlegacy.org/ |
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