National Strategy
The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-rich Health Care, a national strategic plan presented July 21, 2004, by Dr. David Brailer, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
National Health Information Infrastructure
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services initiative set forth to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and overall quality of health and health care in the United States.
Wisconsin eHealth Care Quality and Patient Safety Board
The Wisconsin eHealth Board was created in November 2005. Its purpose is to develop a strategic Action Plan for the statewide adoption and exchange of electronic health records in five years.
The eHealth Initiative
An independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology.
Connecting for Health - Markle Foundation
Connecting for Health is working to realize the full potential of information technology in health and health care, while protecting patient privacy and the security of personal health information.
HIPAA Collaborative of Wisconsin
The mission of HIPAA-COW is to:
To assist covered entities, business associates, and other interested parties in implementing the practices required by the Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA and to foster public education about the impact of HIPAA.
To facilitate and streamline HIPAA implementation through identification of best practices.
To reduce duplicate efforts among payers and providers.
To offer opportunities for partnering.
To identify and evaluate regulatory issues in a non-partisan manner.
Public Health MOU
Acceptable public health data use is carefully described in the Memorandum of Understanding for Data Sharing and Use for Public Health Surveillance signed by your organization. In addition, use of Medicaid information in the ED Linking Project is further limited by your department's agreement titled Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Health and Family Services Division of Health Care Access and Accountability and [your agency], a Public Health Authority, for Provision of Medicaid Information. Copies of these documents can be viewed here.
