Health Information Technology Work Group Mission
Recognizing that the development and implementation of a National Health Information Network is based upon a multi-stakeholder, public/private partnership, with federal government leadership on establishing standards and certification procedures, the mission of the NYS Interagency HIT Work Group is to promote New York's adoption of HIT through several key strategies:
- Actively participating in the federal HIT initiative by helping shape the development of a common set of principles and standards for the technical and policy aspects of information sharing and encouraging their broad adoption as national standards.
- Providing leadership as a regulator, educator, payor, public health overseer and financier.
- Reviewing and assessing state-level legal and business concerns to the exchange of health information as related to privacy, security, anti-trust, other.
- Recommending the development of State HIT policies and coordinating their implementation among departments and agencies.
- Facilitating and supporting the development of regional health information exchange initiatives in the State.
- Continuing to both identify sources and directly provide capital funding to support building the infrastructure required to share medical data among stakeholders and ensuring that all stakeholders participate and contribute to the effort.
- Developing and promoting models for long-term sustainability that aligns costs with the benefits of health information exchange (HIE) emphasizing that all stakeholders must achieve benefits and sacrifice as necessary.
- Developing and encouraging use of metrics to measure performance from the perspective of patient care, public health, provider value and economic value.
- Coordinate communication regarding HIT to all New York stakeholders, utilizing the Department's tools, networks, and relationships with providers and practitioners.
