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Health Information Exchange (HIE)

An Alaska Overview

When you leave Alaska and use an ATM machine in Seattle, the banking system recognizes you, your bank and your financial records. These personal, private, and secure financial records are shared and available. On the other hand, imagine if you needed emergency care in Seattle. The information also needs to be personal, private, and secure. How would your medical record history, drug allergies and other relevant data be made available to the emergency room doctor who treats you? In our current situation, the medical history you would want available to the doctor, unfortunately, is not. Important medical information is still inaccessible on paper files or in stand alone databases.

Nine community health clinics in Alaska will receive funding to improve health care services through the use of technology with a grant announced this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  The Alaska Primary Care Association (APCA), a non-profit organization that provides assistance to primary care clinics and promotes access to health care, received the $258,765 grant as part of nearly $3 million in funding for Alaska from the USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants.

22 States Join National Health Information Privacy and Security Collaboration (HISPC)

Agreements pending with 12 states, U.S. territories

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- RTI International announced today that 22 states have signed agreements to join a national collaborative effort to address privacy and security policy questions affecting interoperable health information exchange. Twelve additional states and U.S. territories are expected to sign agreements within two weeks.