Technical and Professional Practice Advisory Committee

The HealthInfoNet Technical and Professional Practice Advisory Committee is a standing committee of the HealthInfoNet Board of Directors comprised of CIOs and Chief Medical Directors from Maine provider sites, practicing providers, and other interested parties with experience and expertise in the implementation and use of health information technology, clinical data sets, and/or public health information systems. The focus of the Committee is to support the Board and the HealthInfoNet staff in matters related to developing, implementing and sustaining a statewide health information exchange.

Meeting Minutes

Membership

Eric Anderson- MaineHealth/Maine Medical Center
Denise Brigham- Maine State Office of Information Technology
Cathy Bruno- Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems
Daniel Burgess- MaineGeneral Health
Tanya Freeman- Central Maine Healthcare
Donald Krause M.D.- St. Joseph Healthcare
Eric Hartz, M.D.- Eastern Maine Medical Center
Ralph Johnson- Franklin Memorial Hospital
Paul Klainer, M.D.- Independent Practitioner, Maine Medical Association
James Leonard- State Office of the Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Greg McCarthy- Martin’s Point Health Care
Roderick Prior, M.D.- MaineCare and Committee Chair
Kevin Lewis- Maine Primary Care Association
David Silsbee- Cary Medical Center
Chris Simons- Spring Harbor Hospital
Peter Smith- Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
John Vogt, M.D.- Martin’s Point Health Care
David Winslow- Maine Hospital Association

Goals

  1. Establish a Technical and Professional Practice Advisory Committee comprised of CIOs and Chief Medical Directors from Maine provider sites, practicing providers, and other interested parties with experience and expertise in the implementation and use of health information technology, clinical data sets, and/or public health information systems.
  2. Provide for representation on committee from providers with varying degrees of electronic medical record system use including non-users.
  3. Initiate regular meeting schedule (began October 2006)
  4. Ensure strong technical and clinical experience in HealthInfoNet by actively engaging some or all Technology and Professional Practice Committee members in:
  5. Advise HIN staff in negotiating contract provisions with technology vendors;
  6. Recommend system functional design to support HIN service objectives;
  7. Support development of the Vendor Forum to coordinate communication with office EMR vendors and IDN/ Hospital HIN vendors;
  8. Review nationally recommended standards (data coding, security, etc.) and promoting statewide adoption;
  9. Serve as an implementation oversight committee responsible for supporting HIN staff in monitoring vendor work plans and deliverables, establishing criteria for pilot participants, and working to identify and resolve barriers to success;
  10. Support the coordination of interface activities and assist in managing interface development with providers and practices;
  11. Assist in the development of a statewide MPI and the management protocols to be adopted by HIN;
  12. Serve as Long-Range Planning workgroup to review and study product/service opportunities to be recommended to the HIN Board;
  13. Serve as the professional practice subcommittee to address and make recommendations on clinical practice, quality improvement and content management objectives for HIN;
  14. Provide input for the design of EMR interfaces;
  15. Advise on the development of a provider education plan to communicate the value of HIN to practicing physicians;
  16. Support the liaison with Maine CDC&P to sustain a plan for meeting public health data needs.

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