Home › Collaborative Centers

Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption

CeHIA - Goals and Tasks

The Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption will serve a number of related, but disparate, functions. The first will to be act as a clearinghouse for information concerning the national development of various Health Technology system platforms and electronic delivery platforms for medical records. The second task is to coordinate national education concerning the importance of HIT/EMR developments to both providers and consumers of health care. The final task of the Center will be to elucidate the integral role of HIT/EMR development within the specific context of the Patient Centered Medical Home model and expand upon the provision with the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home as written by the ACP, AAFP, AOA, and the AAP.

The Center will convene and report out at general meetings of the PCPCC progress towards achieving the following goals/objectives:

Short-Term

  1. Conduct an industry wide survey of open info exchanges systems to begin placing the Center as the nationwide clearinghouse information.
  2. 4-6 weeks begin to release guidance for the proper implementation of HIT/EMR on a largely interoperable basis built upon the survey of open info exchanges.
  3. Reach out to the three major EMR info data base development projects; Microsoft Health Vault, Google Health, and Dossia.
Long-Term
  1. Develop system models to ensure the broad scale implementation of HIT/EMR implementation.
  2. Broad educational efforts to highlight the importance of HIT/EMR in the improvement of health care quality and cost containment.
  3. Track all major future developments of eHealth initiatives.

CeHIA - Updates and Contact Information

Center Overview and Updates

The Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption will serve a number of related functions. The first will to be act as a clearinghouse for information concerning the national development of various Health Technology system platforms and electronic delivery platforms for medical records. The second task is to coordinate national education concerning the importance of HIT/EMR developments to both providers and consumers of health care. The final task of the Center will be to elucidate the integral role of HIT/EMR development within the specific context of the Patient Centered Medical Home model and expand upon the provision with the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home as agreed to by the ACP, AAFP, AOA, and the AAP. We encourage any interested Collaborative members to join us every other week on Wednesdays from 2-3pm EDT for our regularly scheduled conference calls.
For those who are interested in participating with this Center, please contact Chris Nohrden (nohrden@us.ibm.com) or Joe Grundy at jgrundy@pcpcc.net or call 202.789.2577.

Call Schedule
Call in number (218)339-2626, Code 754440#
Bi-weekly – Wednesday, 2 PM EDT - 07/02, 07/16, 07/30, (no August calls), 09/10, 09/24, 10/08, 10/22, 11/05, 11/19, 12/03, 12/17

Deliverables' Timeframe

Deliverables Timeframe
White Paper: "HIT and the Medical Home- Value Proposition" 
Getting Started
(A)Track key legislation and regulations that impede or facilitate free flow of clinical information. (B)create definitions and monitoring; and report to Legislative Committee of PCPCC for action
Have started-
will put on site and update soon
Identify "Best Practices" for HIT adoption to offer "Lessons Learned" and compile in "Best Practices Guide of Early Adopters" showing HIT as a transformational tool
6 Months
Standard Definition Guide- (for practices) 
6 Months
Establish "Go-To" Resource Center to include: White Papers, Legislative Tracking, Best Practices in HIT Adoption, Standards Definitions, Purchasers Guide on Technology, Technology Resources (available for PCMH at 3 levels)
Begin right away on Center's page, keep updated

Latest CeHIA Related Stories