Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
Project Title: Implement Utah Statewide Clinical Health Information Exchange( cHIE) State: Utah Applicant: Utah Department of Health Address: 288 N. 1460 W., Salt Lake City, Utah 84116 Contact Name: David N. Sundwall, MD, Executive Director Phone/Fax: (801) 538-6111; (801) 538-6306 Email: DSUNDWALL@utah.gov Web Site: health.utah.gov Congressional Districts: covering all of Utah first, second and third congressional districts State of HIE: Piloting clinical information exchange in three counties The Utah Department of Health and the Utah Health Information Network (UHIN), in collaboration with the Utah Health IT Governance Consortium and its 22 statewide organization members support the State Health Information Exchange (HIE) Cooperative Agreement Program. The goal of the Utah Statewide cHIE Program is to implement the statewide exchange of clinical health information for improved health care delivery in the state of Utah. The federal HIE funding will enable Utah to achieve following objectives: 1) to connect a preponderance of health care providers - defined as 80% or more of the health care entities in the state of Utah - to the clinical HIE to exchange clinical health information for treatment purposes at the point of care (???Connections???); 2) to expand the clinical HIE services to include electronic prescribing, laboratory ordering and result delivering, and medication history to provide better quality and cost-effective health services and to support providers to meet federal meaningful use requirements (???Expanded HIE Services???); 3) to develop a sustainable governance and business model to operate the clinical HIE (???Sustainability???); 4) to conduct ongoing strategic planning and evaluation in order to implement initiatives that efficiently use technology to transform the health care delivery system (???Planning and Evaluation???); 5) to integrate public health data exchange with clinicians to reduce burden on providers, increase timely and completed reporting, and protect population health (???Public Health???). Utah???s approach is for the State of Utah to lead the statewide strategic planning effort to assure proper governance to protect the public interests and coordinate resources to develop the clinical HIE; and UHIN, as the state-designated HIE entity, to implement, operate, and sustain the clinical HIE. The clinical HIE targets Utah residents that have not opted out of the clinical HIE. The products from the four-year program are: Utah???s statewide electronic connectivity and interoperability among health care providers to share clinical health information or electronic health records for patient care through services of electronic prescribing, laboratory ordering and result delivering, consolidated medication histories, hospital discharge summaries and other information for care coordination. Through the clinical HIE, Utah???s health care delivery system will be connected to the National Health Information Network (NHIN) and exchange health information among authorized parties. Utah will document its efforts and publicly share project publications. Through evidence-based evaluation, we expect to achieve following outcomes: improved efficiency of the health care delivery system, reduced medication errors, timely and accurate care coordination and better quality care for people of Utah. We also expect to create a private-public collaborative business model for the clinical HIE to efficiently use health information technology and exchange to transform today???s health care delivery system to support national health care reform.
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