Public Health and Health Information Exchanges: Developing a Common Roadmap to Future Success

This presentation will examine the benefits of and best practices for sharing health information electronically between Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and public health. The NY, Indiana and Washington/Idaho HIE Initiatives will provide a summary of their ongoing accomplishments from the CDC’s Situational Awareness through Health Information Exchange program as well as current year activities and plans.  Key activities discussed include: 
*        Developing collaboration and data sharing agreements between HIEs and state, local and Federal public health agencies
*        Putting into operation the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) standards and Gateway services
*        Developing innovative practices for sharing information between public health and the clinical care environment
*        Extending existing technical standards to support summarized data exchange
*        Responding to the H1N1 outbreak using HIE data and processes, to support both case identification, and situational awareness based on summarized data
*        Developing evaluation plans for assessing the utility and effectiveness of HIE and public health interactions