State Office of Rural Health (SORH)

HIT/HIE Resources

2009

• Breach Notification Interim Final Rule
• HHS Health Information Technology
  HITECH grants are available at this web site.
• NGA Report, "Preparing to Implement Hitech: A State Guide for electronic HIE"
• NCSL Report, Contains all of the state security breach notification laws.
• CCHIT Criteria Personal Health Records (DRAFT) - 2009. This provides an excellent insight into various Security and Privacy criteria and outlines expectations to be met in order to satisfy them.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) HIT website
  CMS and Health Information Technology as provided for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
  
  On this website, you can find information pertaining to the Medicare and Medicaid incentives for electronic health records adoption and important links to related websites at the Department of Health and Human Services.
  • A CMS fact sheet and questions/answers pertaining to the incentive programs
  • Link to press release pertaining to the process of defining meaningful use
  • Resources on Health IT and privacy & security (HIPAA)

2008

• Accelerating Progress: Using Health Information Technology and Electronic Health Information Exchange to Improve Care, 1st annual report and recommendations from the NGA - State Alliance for E-Health
• HIMSS EMR Adoption Stages
• A Call for Action: Enabling Healthcare Reform Using Information Technology, December 2008
  Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) -- Recommendations for the Obama Administration and 111th Congress
• Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
• New Directions in Health Care: The Commonwealth Fund Podcast, November 2008
• Health Information Technology: More Than the Money, October 2008
• Accelerating Progress: Using Health Information Technology and Electronic Health Information Exchange to Improve Care, 1st annual report and recommendations from the State Alliance for E-Health.
• National Conference of State Legislatures State of State Health IT in 2007 and 2008
• State Health IT Financing, August 19, 2008
• Health Information Technology (HIT) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) Fact Sheet, August 2008
• North Dakota HIT Steering Committee Activities
• Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology, May 2008
• Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, April 28, 2008

2006

• Overcoming Ten Non-Technical Challenges of RHIOs
• Lessons Learned from the Nine Communities Funded through the Connecting Communities for Better Health Program
• Health agency wins grant for keeping records: Program seeks cooperation of providers, July 29, 2006
• Are RHIOs For Real?
• The (IT) Doctor Is In: The Role of the State CIO in Health IT, February 2006
• Evolution of State Health Information Exchange/A Study of Vision, Strategy, and Progress, January 2006