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Health Information Exchange Toolkit


Description

This toolkit is designed to assist health care leaders in managing the challenges associated with developing, adopting, operating, and sustaining a health information exchange (HIE). It addresses the steps needed for starting an HIE—creating a sustainable model, technical aspects of connectivity, marketing and promoting of HIEs, enhancing services, and tracking progress.

The toolkit is divided into the following sections:

  • Introduction
  • How to get started
  • Setting up a governance structure
  • Legal and information sharing agreements
  • Protecting patient privacy
  • Sustainability
  • Marketing
  • Connecting technically
  • Moving forward
Links to the Tool:
This tool is available at: http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/hie-toolkit.html

Developer

eHealth Initiative

Funding Sources

eHealth Initiative


QualityTool Topic

Quality improvement strategies


History

  • Release Date: 06/2011
  • Original Summary: 11/2011
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Last updated: February 01, 2012.