Lesson 5 Types and uses of Health info tech

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are defined as states and entities meeting a set of standards, specifications, and policies that enable the secure exchange of health information over the Internet

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Information networks

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In this model, the state government directly runs the health information network through an exist-ing agency, such as the Iowa Department of Public Health with the Iowa Health Information Network (IHIN)

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. A government-led network with a direct government program,

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where a public sector serves an oversight role and regulates the private-provided services of the information network. With this model, the state government creates an agency of the state in the form of a nonprofit authority with comprehensive and extensive powers to operate the state health information network in a businesslike manner.

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public-utility information network with gov-ernment oversight,

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In this model, the state government has contracted health infor-mation exchange capabilities to an existing organization. This model exists in 11 states: Cali-fornia, Montana, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.

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an information network led by the private sector with government collaboration, where the government acts as a stakeholder and the private sector operates the services.

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were developed to support research on patient outcomes rather than the care delivered.

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clinical-data networks

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is the ability of two or more health information systems to exchange elec-tronic clinical information with, and use electronic clinical information from, other systems

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Interoperability

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These technical standards and implementation specifications require additional specification by the standards-development community, have not been broadly tested, have no or low adoption, and/or have only been implemented within a local or con-trolled setting.

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Emerging

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These technical standards and implementation specifications have reached a level of maturity, specification clarity, and adoption, where some entities use them to exchange health information either in a testing or production environment.

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Pilot

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These technical standards and implementation specifications have reached a high-level of maturity and adoption by different entities such that most entities are using them, or are readily able to adopt them for use, to exchange health information

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National

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is broadly defined as the set of standards, specifications, and policies that support the secure exchange of health information over the Inter-net

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Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)

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is defined as the electronic movement of health-related information or clinical data that follows patients across delivery settings, according to nationally recognized standards

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health information exchange (HIE)

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is a standard person-identifier code that uniquely identifies an individual and permits the correlation process to match the person’s data from a variety of different sources of health providers

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master person index (MPI)

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is necessary to identify who is allowed to access health information through the HIE record-locator services.

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Authentication

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process can occur through the healthcare organizations that already manage employment or through professional appointments. These organizations are positioned to facilitate role-based security for a clinician user to gain access to the record-locator service for health information exchange.

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authorization