HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo, Wed, Jun 09, to Thu, Jun 10, 2010

This virtual event focuses on transformational approaches for achieving meaningful use. The educational program will highlight the innovative approaches, strategies, actions and awareness needed to transform healthcare through three tracks: Facilitating Health IT Adoption and Utilization; Principle and Practice of Usability and Human-Computer Interfaces; and Career Development/Advancement. Please share this event with your connections!

Input on Tennessee's Strategic and Operational plans for Health Information Exchange

From: Dean Flener

Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:47 PM

Subject: For Public Comment

To: [email protected]

The Office of e-Health Initiatives would like your input on Tennessee's Strategic and Operational plans for Health Information Exchange. These documents describe Tennessee’s plan to increase the adoption and use of health information technology and health information services among health care providers. The Office of e-Health’s Strategic and Operational plans aim to create a patient-centered health care system with the primary goal of enabling secure access to electronic health care information Click the links below to download and view the documents:

Tennessee's Operational Plan for HIE http://bit.ly/ckUeJw

Tennessee's Strategic Plan for HIE http://bit.ly/9hhapO

Instructions for sharing your comments:

1) E-mail your comments to [email protected].

2) You may share your comments as narrative in e-mail or as an attachment to an e-mail message.

3) Please include your first name, last name and organization name. We’re sorry but if this information is not included, we will not be able to consider your comment for response.

4) Please indicate the page number(s) and paragraph(s) where proposed edits or comments should be considered.

5) All comments are due by noon CDT on Friday, May 21, 2010.

6) If you have questions, please e-mail [email protected]. After we review and respond to the received public comments, we will post a compiled list of the comments on the Office of e-Health website, http://www.tn.gov/ehealth and to the Listserv. If you know others in our state who would be interested in providing public comment on Tennessee’s Strategic and Operational plans for Health Information Exchange, please forward this message to them. We want to hear from as many Tennesseans as possible.