Ohio
Health Information Technology News
(updated 03-24-08)
Ohio Health Information Partnership Advisory Board
The Board had its first meeting on March 17, 2008 and more information can be found at the wiki:
http://ohipab.pbwiki.com
Health Policy Institute of Ohio Receives Federal Funding for Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC)
Governor
Bob Taft announced on May 26, 2006, that the Health Policy Institute of
Ohio has received a $350,000 contract from the federal government to
study how Ohio’s privacy and security laws and business practices would
affect the exchange of electronic health information.
The
contract, from RTI International on behalf of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and the National Governors Association Center
for Best Practices, funds the establishment of the Health Information
Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC). Governor Taft and the Ohio
Department of Health named the Health Policy Institute of Ohio as state
designee for the contract. more
Health Information Community of
Ohio meeting
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio
(HPIO) held the first meeting of the Health Information Community of
Ohio (HICO) on February 24 at the Business Technology Center in
Columbus. There were 70 people in attendance, with speakers from
Tennessee, New York and Minnesota, as well as from all areas of Ohio,
and a wide variety of stakeholder groups were represented.
The
formation of HICO is part of HPIO's Health Information Technology (HIT)
Initiative and is central to the Research Triangle Inc.'s (RTI) Request
for Proposals
regarding Privacy and Security. RTI is the contractor for a series of
work subcontracts funded by AHRQ (Agency for Health Research and
Quality) and the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator of Health
Information Technology). The HICO Response can be downloaded here.
(pdf, 309k)
The Institute has been designated by
the Governor as the Offeror for the State of Ohio in the bid for one of
40 contracts ranging from $150,000 to $350,000 for the next several
months. The contracts call for working groups of diverse stakeholders
in a state to meet. The groups will work to identify barriers and
create solutions to the task of secure and private Health Information
Exchange (HIE) among various medical providers in a patient-centric
environment.
The contract awards will be announced
in April 2006.
HIT Multimedia Page Now Online
The 2005 Ohio Health Information
Technology Summit multimedia page is
now online. The page include presentations,
slides, poster sessions, publications, MP3 files of presenters, and
more from the 2005 Ohio Health Information Symposium.
