North Dakota Technology Health Advisory Committee

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The North Dakota Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) has been charged with developing and implementing the model to enable statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). We believe your input will be extremely valuable in ensuring the project’s success. We invite you to participate in one of the upcoming workshops we will be holding to provide information about the project and to promote participation by healthcare providers and consumers.



Electronic health information exchange (HIE) offers many advantages over the current system of obtaining and using health information. One advantage is that comprehensive patient health information is available at the time and place of care, linked to clinical decision support systems and to information about quality, outcomes and cost. Since public trust is fundamental to successful health information exchange initiatives, any proposal for HIE must carefully address concerns about this sensitive and personal information.



Our goal for these meetings is to provide you with information about HIE and to seek your input into our planning and design. We want to understand your concerns and interests and provide information on our efforts to date in developing and implementing the model to enable statewide HIE and our plans to develop strategic and operational plans to help us to reach that goal.



Four workshops are planned Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot.



DATE
CITY
LOCATION
Time

Tuesday, April 6
Fargo
FARGODOME –

Meeting Room 201 – Mezzanine Level
6:30 to 8:30 PM

Thursday, April 8
Grand Forks
UND Center for Innovation –

Idea Lab
7:00 to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, April 13
Minot
Minot State University –

Old Main Room 106
6:00 to 8:00 PM

Thursday, April 15
Bismarck
Bismarck State College –

NECE Auditorium
6:30 to 8:30 PM




You are welcome to attend any workshop. Please mark your calendar for the date and location most convenient for you.



The North Dakota Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), the North Dakota Information Technology Department and the State HIT Office have retained Hielix/Mednet consultants to assist us in completing the strategic and operational plans. They along with HITAC members will facilitate the meetings.



These meetings offer you a unique opportunity to help shape statewide future electronic health information exchange. We look forward to your participation.





Sheldon H. Wolf

ND Health Information Technology Director

600 East Boulevard Ave. Dept 112

Bismarck, ND 58505-0100



Telephone (701) 328-1991

Fax (701) 328-3000

Email: shwolf@nd.gov