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Georgia Health Information Exchange Network. GeorgiaDirect - The Secure Exchange of Health Information February 19 , 2013. Georgia HIE Network FAQs. What is a Health Information Exchange?.
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Georgia Health Information Exchange Network GeorgiaDirect - The Secure Exchange of Health Information February 19, 2013
Georgia HIE Network FAQs What is a Health Information Exchange? • Technology, business, and policy infrastructure that enables clinical information to move electronically among disparate health information systems • Allowsauthorized providers and users to securely query for and receive patient health information. • Presents a more complete view of the patient – ensuring proper delivery of the right data to the right place at the right time. 2
Georgia HIE Network FAQs Who’s involved [in it’s development]? • A public-private collaborative of healthcare stakeholders from around the state • Georgia Department of Community Health • Georgia Health Information Exchange, Inc., a non-profit 501 (c)(3) • Georgia Health Information Exchange Technology Regional Extension Center • Many other stakeholders in business, technology, healthcare, academia, etc. • Working together to develop and implement a technology, business, and policy infrastructure to sustain a statewide network of networks health information exchange model. 3
Georgia HIE Network FAQs What’s the State’s Role? • DCH collaborates and coordinates with GHIE, Inc. and other state and national stakeholders. • State leverages available funding and HIE assets to facilitate the design, development and implementation of the statewide HIE network in Georgia • Mission and Vision • Technology infrastructure • Legal/privacy policy framework • Business development and financial sustainability planning • Customer value proposition 4
Georgia HIE Network FAQs How will it work? • The Georgia statewide HIE is a network of networks model • Connecting several healthcare organizations and providers • Health-related state agencies, SAHIEs, hospitals, clinics, physician practices, long-term care facilities, payers, labs, pharmacies, telehealth and many more • Enabling real-time exchange of patient health information from one treating provider to another • Clinicians can query the exchange to find their patient’s health information • Reports can be automatically pushed from one provider site to another (lab results and radiology report delivery) • Is not a central repository of clinical data – information remains with the treating provider and only flows when there is authorization. • The Georgia HIE network is also the distribution mechanism for future products and services 5
Georgia HIE Network FAQs What will it look like? • Network Participants • Health-related state agencies • Service Area HIEs • Payers • Healthcare organizations and providers • Labs, ePrescribing • Telehealth • Wellness Partners • Many other participants • Products • GeorgiaDirect (Phase 1) • PatientFinder (Phase 2) • Services • Basic HIE Services • Advanced HIE Services • Patient Focused HIE Services • Value-add HIE Services • Other HIE Services Health information exchange technology, business and financial planning, human resources, consent model, legal, privacy/security and policy framework, internal business processes, marketing and sales, driving customer value, innovation & new growth 6
Georgia HIE Network Georgia HIE Network Products and Services Georgia HIE Network Products The Georgia HIE network offers two types of secure data exchange products: The Georgia HIE network is also the pipeline to distribute future products/services to providers throughout Georgia • GeorgiaDirect –secure email messaging • PatientFinder (working title) – query-based exchange 7
Georgia HIE Network Georgia HIE Network Products and Services 6.29.12 Pilot Launched 11.8.12 Open to all Georgia Providers • First product offered by the Georgia HIE network • A free and easy-to-use service using secure messaging enables authorized providers to securely transmit patient health data to another authorized clinician • Replaces slower, less secure and less reliable forms of patient data exchange such as fax, unsecure email, and phone • Does not replace more robust query-based health information exchange 8
Georgia HIE Network Georgia HIE Network Products and Services Provides a secure way for health care providers to send authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet. h.elthie@ahospital.gadirect.org b.wells@aclinic.gadirect.org 9