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Technical Subcommittee
Across the United States, hundreds of organizations are working to establish local, regional, and other kinds of health information exchange networks. Through its prototype, Connecting for Health is developing a set of tools to assist organizations engaged in this kind of work, since many of them are contending with significant, novel contractual and technical issues.
To assure that they are compatible, Connecting for Health is simultaneously developing technical requirements for information exchange and policies that protect patient information. To that end, Connecting for Health has established a Technical Subcommittee and a Policy Subcommittee that work together closely on the prototype.
The Technical Subcommittee is dedicated to defining and testing a technological means to match patients with their existing health records, as well as to ensure the timely delivery of those records to sites of care, such as hospitals or doctors' offices.
The Subcommittee's process began with an articulation of principles that it has used to guide its work, including the following: Any proposed solution must support the accurate, timely, and secure handling and transmission of patient information; it must increase the quality of care, the economic sustainability of the health care system, and preserve the privacy of patient data; and, it must create value for many different kinds of participants, from private, non-profit and government institutions to the individual health care professionals and patients who use it.
Through the Connecting for Health prototype, the subcommittee plans to demonstrate that a group of institutions, with no other formal affiliation, can securely use the Internet to connect to one another and to locate and exchange health information as needed for patient care. Moreover, the Subcommittee plans to exchange such information without requiring the use of a unique patient identifier for health or a central store of clinical data. Importantly, the system will enable participation by institutions and practices without highly sophisticated information technology systems.
Chair
Clay Shirky,
Adjunct Professor,
New York University,
Graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program,
Chair, CFH Technology Subcommittee
Members
Laura Adams,
President and CEO,
Rhode Island Quality Institute
Steve Adams,
President and CEO,
Reach My Doctor
Deleys Brandman,
Vice President, Health Plan Outsourcing,
First Consulting Group
Bryan Breen,
Internet Business Solutions Group,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Sophia Chang, MD, MPH,
Director, Chronic Disease Care,
California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)
Art Davidson, MD, MSPH,
RHIO, Colorado,
Denver Public Health
Didi Davis,
Technology and Integration Market Strategies, Eclipsys,
Co-Chair, IHE IT Infrastructure Planning Committee,
Eclipsys
Greg deBor,
Partner, Global Health Solutions,
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Lyman Dennis,
CIO, Partnership HealthPlan of California,
HIMSS and IHE
George Eisenberg,
Manager, Industry Solution Development and Architecture;
Senior Certified IT Architect,
IBM
David Epstein,
Director, Solution Development - Public Sector,
IBM
Linda Fischetti, RN, MS,
Health Informatics Architect, HL7 HER TC Co-Chair,
Veterans Health Administration
Mark Frisse, MD, MBA, MSc,
Accenture Professor and Director,
Tennessee Volunteer eHealth Initiative,
Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
Don Grodecki,
Chief Architect, OpenHRE;
President, Browsersoft, Inc.,
OpenHRE
John Halamka, MD,
Chief Information Officer,
CareGroup Healthcare System
Bob Hedgcock,
CTO,
EMSystem, LLC; Wisconsin Health Information Exchange
Noreen Hurley,
Director, Business Account Management & Customer Relationship Management,
Tufts Health Plan
Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD,
Senior Global Strategist, Digital Health Group,
Intel Corporation
Timothy Kenney,
Director of Enterprise Technologies and Interoperability at IDX,
IDX
Josh Lemieux,
Markle Foundation
Christopher Lindop,
HCIS Chief Architect,
Kodak
JP Little,
CIO, SVP Sales/General Manager - Eastern Region,
RxHub
David Lubinski,
Senior Director, Health Industry,
Microsoft Corporation
Janet Marchibroda,
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative (eHI)
Gregory Andre Marinkovich, MD, FAAP LTC, MC,
CITPO, Architecture and Integration ,
Clinical Information Technology Program Office,
Tricare Management Activity, Office of Secretary of Defense/Health Affairs
Patrick McMahon,
Law and Corporate Affairs,
Microsoft Corporation
Omid Moghadam,
Director of Personal Health Records Technology,
Intel, Digital Health Group
Don Mon, PhD,
Vice President, Practice Leadership,
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
Bruno Nardone,
Business Consulting Services,
IBM
Marc Overhage, MD,
Senior Investigator,
Regenstrief Institute
George Peredy, MD,
Physician Lead,
Kaiser Permanente, HealthConnect
Nick Ragouzis,
President,
Enosis Group, LLC
Rick Ratliff,
COO,
SureScripts
Jere Retzer,
Chair (Internet2), OHSU ITG Senior Manager, Next Generation Networking,
Internet2, Oregon Health & Science University
Wes Rishel,
Vice President,
Gartner Research
Barry Rhodes, PhD,
Associate Director for Public Health Systems Development,
National Center for Public Health Informatics,
CDC
Scott Schumacher, PhD,
Chief Scientist,
Initiate Systems, Inc.
Geoff Smith,
Director of Development,
MEDITECH
Jonathan Teich, MD,
Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Healthvision,
Taconic
Micky Tripathi,
President and CEO,
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
Charlene Underwood,
Director of Government and Industry Affairs,
Siemens, EHR Vendor Association
Karen Van Hentenryck,
Director of Technical Publications,
HL-7
Cynthia Wark, CAPT,
USPHS Deputy Director, Information Systems Group,
Office of Clinical Standards and Quality Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS
Jon White, MD,
Health IT Portfolio Manager,
AHRQ, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Scott Williams, MD, MPH,
Vice President, Medical Affairs,
HealthInsight
Amy Zimmerman-Levitan, MPH,
Project Manager, State and Regional Demonstration in Health IT,
Rhode Island Department of Health, RHIO, RI
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