dhsi source nid
1450
gr presenter
Stephanie Reel, M.B.A. Chief Information Office and Vice Provost for Information Technologies, JHU; Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Informatics, SOM & David Horrocks, President, CRISP
gr location
School of Public Health, Wolfe St, Sheldon Hall
gr description

OBJECTIVES: 1. Articulate potential gains and possible barriers to RHIOs in general. 2. Describe the plans for Maryland's RHIO. 3. Describe the components of CRISP

abstracts

Regions and states around the country are working out in regional health information organizations (RHIOs) how to share information across providers and systems to provide complete, fast, and accurate health information about patients. Maryland has been working out how to structure its RHIO, and CRISP represents the first large-scale, funded commitment by the State government to do so. CRISP is a collaborative partnership, led by Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, MedStar Health, The University of Maryland Medical System and Erickson Retirement Communities that has engaged in the diligence of planning and committed to the longer-term responsibility of implementation. CRISP is a product of conversations between these Maryland healthcare leaders identifying the desire to cooperatively pursue health information exchange and electronic medical record adoption initiatives aimed at improving the quality of care in Maryland by facilitating the delivery of the right data at the right place at the right time. In this talk, Ms. Reel will describe the initiative, which just received major funding from the State, and formally starts Sept 3, 2009.