Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC)
 

Arkansas has been recently awarded by the Research Triangle Institute International a year-long contract to explore strategies to improve electronic health information exchange while ensuring privacy and security. By bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, the project will seek to 1) develop consensus-based solutions to public and private barriers surrounding health information exchange; and 2) identify and incorporate interoperability standards and protocols for improved exchange of health information. The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI) serves as the project lead, in close partnership with the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services (ADHHS) and the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC).  It is our hope that these efforts will pave the way for improved efficiencies, improved access to care, decreased medical errors, enhance continuity of care, and ultimate reduction of escalating health care costs. Through this project, Arkansas joins thirty-three other states in the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC).  This supports the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' aim to allow electronic health records to be shared among health care professionals nationwide.

 

Additional information can be accessed at http://www.rti.org/page.cfm?objectid=09E8D494-C491-42FC-BA13EAD1217245C0