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Apr 22, 2009

Enabling Health Information Exchanges for Biosurveillance and Public Safety

With potent new viruses and biological and nuclear warfare always a threat on the horizon, interoperable information exchange systems will be absolutely necessary for rapid National Security responses and Homeland Security. Information exchange between healthcare providers, police, fire and other public safety and health officials is imperative for the analysis and prevention of epidemics. The same information exchanges can also be deployed for responses to biologic, justice or public safety crises. Yet interoperable health and first responder data exchanges for crisis prevention remains a formidable national challenge, even in the post 9/11 world.

Public Safety and Healthcare professionals of every jurisdiction have critical missions requiring intercommunications that are often compromised because their information resides in thousands of disparate data silos. Unless these data are instantaneously, confidentially and seamlessly shared, the ability to aggregate and analyze data for intelligence or Syndromic surveillance analysis is nearly impossible. Also, without data integration, disaster responses are relegated to outmoded voice pagers and messaging.

This Webcast overviews a pilot project in Montana that demonstrates the ability to rapidly develop and deploy an affordable Health Information Exchange (HIE) that facilitates effective biosurveillance for prevention as well as response. This project has created an interoperable information infrastructure that moves data among four hospital Emergency Departments and to the National Center for Health Care Informatics and to the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. When appropriate, data of interest can then be transmitted to the Department of Homeland Security. This system supports better management of routine as well as emergency operations where potentially high mortality or morbidity situations demand regional and possibly national priority.

Presenters:

• Ray Rogers, CEO of National Center for Health Care Informatics, Butte, Montana, where the HIE infrastructure is housed.

• Dr. Bill Mohlenbrock, Healthcare Subject Matter Expert, Crossflo Systems

Date: Apr 22, 2009

Time: 1:00 pm ET

Duration: 1 hour

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