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Current situation... I am currently busy with technical specification for an HIE to send to the vendor Community.
Where I want to go... PROPOSED HIE.ZA IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP AND PHASES so that vendors are able to see the next steps
Help I'm looking for... I am looking for some guidance or examples for this roadmap
Current situation... Hi, I am part of the Business Working Group of the HIE initiative in South Africa. I have 2 questions for the Colleaga community of practice, and would appreciate your views on these matters.
Where I want to go... We are setting up the legal entity for the HIE and need to cater for the consent management process.
Help I'm looking for... 1. What are the issues we need to take into consideration when setting up the legal entity for the HIE? We are proposing a 'Not for profit' company. 2. What info is out there regarding a consent management process for the HIE and Funders and Payers connecting to the HIE?
Sequioa Healtheways Connect
The Sequia Project hosts collaborative initiatives, including: http://sequoiaproject.org/ The eHealth Exchange - a rapidly growing community of exchange partners who share information under a common trust framework and a common set of rules. Carequality - a public-private collaborative building consensus among health IT data exchange programs to develop a common interoperability framework enabling seamless exchange among networks. RSNA Image Share Validation - a conformity assessment program that tests the compliance of vendors’ systems using quality standards determined most effective for accurate and efficient exchange of medical images including those used in the RSNA Image Share Network.
Jonathan Weiner opens the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Population Health Informatics
Check out this great video on population health informatics by Professor Jonathan Weiner: Jonathan Weiner opens the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Population Health Informatics

Current situation... I am part of a working group tasked with developing business requirements for an HIE.
Where I want to go... I need to find information on HIE principles.
Help I'm looking for... I am looking for examples of which principles should be incorporated into HIE governance/operations documentation.
Current situation... I am the lead in setting up the organizational structure for a Health Information Exchange
Where I want to go... I’m hoping these documents will include different aspects of the entity itself, shareholders agreements, governance structures etc.
Help I'm looking for... I’m looking for advice/templates/best practice documentation available that can help me through the process
Commonwell and CareQuality create federated interoperability system
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-interoperability-were-closing-signature-moment
HIE financial models
Hi, I am part of the Business Working Group of the HIE initiative in South Africa. We are developing the financial model(s) for the HIE and would like comments from for the Colleaga community of practice on how other HIE's have approached their financial models. Thanks to you all in advance for contributing!
Smart Health open source app development platform
https://smarthealthit.org/ SMART Health IT is an open, standards based technology platform that enables innovators to create apps that seamlessly and securely run across the healthcare system. Using an electronic health record (EHR) system or data warehouse that supports the SMART standard, patients, doctors, and healthcare practitioners can draw on this library of apps to improve clinical care, research, and public health.
Current situation... I am part of the technical working group developing the Health Information Exchange in South Africa. I’m sharing a request for diagrams that pertain to HIE security architecture.
Where I want to go... I need a security diagram with some bullet points of information.
Help I'm looking for...
I’m looking for any security architecture documents that you might have on the Colleaga domain?
Current situation... I am part of a working group that is planning for the build phase of an HIE. Several of us would like to know how we can ensure that the Electronic Health Record (EHR) is consistent, conformant and correct at the time of query?
Where I want to go... for example, many diagnostic techniques can be used to assess the same indicator e.g. cholesterol can be measured on-site using a cholesterol meter or by blood work analysis. If this indicator were stored at a summary level of an EHR, by what govern
Help I'm looking for... I am looking for what algorithmic approach is currently applied in HIE implementations in the USA and Canada that identify the reading and most accurately represents the patient's current state?
Current situation... I am part of a working group tasked with developing business requirements for an HIE.
Where I want to go... I need to find information on HIE principles.
Help I'm looking for... I am looking for examples of which principles should be incorporated into HIE governance/operations documentation.
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