PowerPoint slides and a recording of the August 6 TA Webinar “Patient Care Summary Exchange Guidance” are now posted here.

PowerPoint slides and a recording of the July 16 TA Webinar “Gap Analysis Guidance” are now posted here.

The state of Tennessee, in conjunction with nine other states, posted a request for information regarding enterprise medication management technologies and services.  Access the RFI on Tennessee’s Office of eHealth Initiatives website or in the State HIE Toolkit.

Access Maryland’s ONC-approved strategic and operational plans in the Planning Examples and Case Studies section of the State HIE Toolkit at http://statehieresources.org/the-toolkit/general-planning/planning-examples-case-studies/.

PowerPoint slides and a recording of the May 20 TA webinar “Evaluation of the State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program” by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) are now posted here.

Vice President Joseph Biden and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that $220 million in federal program funding has been awarded to 15 communities across the country to demonstrate meaningful use of health information technology through community projects designed to improve health care quality, safety, and efficiency.
Read the press release here.
See the funding grid and project [...]

You can access the PowerPoint slides and a recording from the April 15 Technical Assistance Webinar, Key Issues in Sustainability and Finance at http://slhie.org/forum-resources/presentations/ or in the State HIE Toolkit under Finance Resources.

On March 24, 2010 the Office of the Federal Register made an Interim Final Rule (IFR) on Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) available.  This IFR contains rules that health care providers will need to follow to  prescribe controlled substances electronically in accordance with the law.  The Interim Final Rule [...]

You can now download PowerPoint slides and a recording of the State HIE TA Webinar “Key Issues in Designing and Developing Statewide Technical Infrastructure” at http://slhie.org/forum-resources/presentations/.

State HIE Program applicants and recipients of cooperative agreements who are either HIT Coordinators or leaders of state designated entities are encouraged to sign up for the State HIE Leadership Forum listserv for notification of events, dialogue and resource sharing among state grantees of the State HIE Program.