Inaugural Digital Medical Office of the Future: "Driving toward meaningful use" conference and exhibition

Proteus Duxbury of PA Consulting Group is a chairperson and speaker at the Inaugural Digital Medical Office of the Future: Driving Toward Meaningful Use Conference and Exhibition, September 9-10, 2010 at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. His subject is 'State cooperative HIE summary'.

The HITECH Act authorized the establishment of the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program to advance appropriate and secure Health Information Exchanges (HIE) across the health care system. 40 states have now received funding for the program to the tune of $564 million. In order to gauge the level of readiness of program participants, PA met with lead representatives for the program from 12 states.

Recognizing that states started from different points in terms of the infrastructure already in place, the states we spoke with are making good progress as evidenced by the status of their planning and the early engagement of important stakeholders. However, most states cited similar challenges.

In this talk Proteus describes those challenges across the five domains defined by ONC – Governance, Finance, Technical Infrastructure, Business &Technical Operations, and Legal/Policy. He also discusses approaches being taken to address those challenges and include recommendations from our experience elsewhere.

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