Established: 1978
The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium was founded in 1978 by the state's major public and private health care organizations. The Massachusetts Health Data Consortiuma serves as a neutral agency, an "honest broker," to collect, analyze and disseminate health care information. The Consortium's information products, services and special projects support health policy development, technology planning and implementation, and improved decision making in the allocation and financing of health care.
Massachusetts SHARE (Simplifying Healthcare Among Regional Entities) is a regional collaborative initiative operated by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. MA-SHARE seeks to promote the inter-organizational exchange of healthcare data using information technology, standards and administrative simplification, in order to make accurate clinical health information available wherever needed in an efficient, cost-effective and safe manner. Click here for more information: http://www.mahealthdata.org/. Through administrative simplification and secure, appropriate sharing of clinical data MA-SHARE envisions:
- A consistently safe environment for patients enabled by readily available, relevant and accurate information wherever patients are treated, and
- A healthcare community operating at a world-class level of efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
MA-SHARE seeks to foster improvements in community clinical connectivity, allowing appropriate sharing of inter-organizational healthcare data among the various participants in the healthcare system – including patients, doctors and other practitioners, hospitals, government, insurers, HMOs and other payors. The MA-SHARE operating is generally conceived as that of a facilitator and incubator, in which projects exploring healthcare data connectivity will be undertaken in order to develop, pilot and strate new healthcare information technologies across communities and enterprises.
For more information contact:
James B. Stowe
617-948-1909
jstowe@jstowe.com
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