HealthShare Montana is a non-profit, statewide initiative focused on the exchange of health care information.
Welcome to HealthShare Montana
HealthShare Montana was organized by health information exchange stakeholders to plan a statewide health information exchange. It is a nonprofit organization with a 21 member Board of Trustees. It includes representatives from state government, major payers, consumer groups, large and small healthcare facilities and individual physicians. In addition, it includes 55 participating organizations/stakeholders. HealthShare Montana has received a resolution of support from the Montana Medical Association.
HSM began organizing in 2006 under the facilitation of Senator Baucus, and created a formal governance structure in July 2007. HSM adopted a technical plan for heath information exchange in and approved privacy and security principles in 2008. Members have modeled clinical cases around disease management utilizing electronic health records with HIE.
Montana has several regional and local HIE systems, but much of the state lacks any HIT infrastructure. There is no statewide system for exchange among all regional and local systems, as well as with the State and payers. HSM has developed a technical plan that takes into account the small providers and critical access hospitals who currently have limited capacity for HIT.
HealthShare Montana, an organization of healthcare leaders and stakeholders in Montana, proposes to plan, develop and implement a statewide health information exchange (HIE) infrastructure. HIE capabilities will be developed according to requirements that will allow its eventual inclusion as a National Health Information Exchange (NHIE) site representing the State of Montana in the National Health Information Network (NHIN).
Goal:
To support, promote and encourage the exchange of secure and reliable health information among stakeholders and regional networks to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of healthcare.
Objectives:
- Provide the nonprofit, public-private partnership governing structure for statewide health information exchange.
- Develop and implement a defined technical plan to implement HIE.
- Provide a framework for defined clinical uses and meaningful use of HIT for stakeholders.
- Provide a statewide guidance on privacy and security for HIE.
Activities:
- Establish administrative structure
- Complete strategic plan
- Update technical plan
- Select vendor
- Install exchange software and hardware
- Obtain stakeholder commitments
- Pilot projects
- Develop scale-up models
- Evaluate progress
- Coordinate with national plan.