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General Resources
The Collaborative Response
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Structure of the Health Information Environment (HIE)
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- A Standards and Policy Entity (SPE) to identify and recommend standards and policies for the "Common Framework"- a set of essential technical and policy requirements that enable the interoperation of standard interfaces and transactions at the local, regional and national level (more fully described in the next question).
- Privacy guidelines and policy clarification re: HIPAA, anti-kickback, potentially conflicting state laws and anti-trust laws.
- Performance and accountability metrics
- Experimentation with and creation of financial incentives that require the Common Framework
- Special attention, funding and mechanisms of support for rural and underserved communities
- Enforcement policies for misuse of data
- Coordinated efforts to ensure public understanding of the benefits of health information exchange and patients rights in the information exchange environment.
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