Community Profiles: Maryland/DC Collaborative for Healthcare Information Technology
Established: 2001 (Incorporated as a non-profit 2004)
Best Advice to New HIE: Focus on building governance before technology.-Begin with securing buy-in from the providers of large healthcare organizations in your area. Involve state agencies and organizations -Involve health plans as soon as possible. Design projects that allow for short term outcomes measurement.
The Maryland/DC Collaborative for Healthcare Information Technology endeavors to build a secure, HIPAA-compliant, regional healthcare information organization (RHIO) in the Maryland/D.C. region and evaluate the distribution of value among stakeholders within the healthcare industry measuring impact on patient safety, quality of care, and efficiency.
The Collaborative began as a grassroots, independent, provider-led initiative in 2001, and now expanded to include the broader healthcare environment as a non-profit, State supported, 501(c)3 organization. It brought together state, provider, community hospital, academic health system, health plan, and employer leaders to create an agreed upon governance structure with a willingness to move forward in unison. Additionally, it raised over $1,000,000 in funding over the last two years including contributed resources to support the planning and start-up of the Collaborative. It also designed a detailed implementation and evaluation community pilot project, which will identify technology adoption and healthcare quality incentives to determine a sustainable business model. With the support of ARINC and the CIOs from the hospital and academic health system member organizations, drafted a technical specification document/RFP for the architecture of a secure, HIPAA compliant, community data exchange () infrastructure serving the needs of providers, hospitals, payers, ancillaries, pubic health entities, pharmacists, and patients across the Maryland/DC area.
Partnering Organizations: Advanced Radiology Aetna American Radiology Services Anne Arundel Medical Center ARINC Baltimore Medical System Calvert Memorial Hospital CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland Centennial Medical Group Clinical Associates Digestive Disease Associates Frederick Memorial Hospital Helix Family Choice Horizon Foundation of Howard County Howard County General Hospital HPV Cardiologists Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Johns Hopkins Employer Health Programs Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) Maryland Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene () Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) Maryland Insurance Association Maryland Primary Care Physicians Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi) Medical Society of the District of Columbia (MSDC) MedStar Health (MedStar) MedStar Health Research Institute Priority Partners Shore Health System The Leapfrog Groups University of Maryland Medicine (UMM) University of Maryland's Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Washington County Hospital
This website was made possible by grant number 1D1BTM00095-01 from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of HRSA/OAT.
