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e-Health
Background
By executive order, Governor Napolitano requested that the State
formulate and implement a strategy to enable electronic data exchange
across health care consumers, payers, providers, consumers, researchers
and government agencies. In April of 2006, that strategy was introduced
in the form of the
Arizona Health-e Connection Roadmap. GITA was instrumental in
the creation of the roadmap and the
Arizona Health-e Connection, a non-profit organization formed in
2007 to provide governance for the implementation of the recommendations
in the roadmap.
GITA continues to play multiple roles in advancing Arizona’s ability to
achieve statewide healthcare goals for quality, cost-effective
healthcare. The Arizona Health-e Connection Roadmap recognizes that a
statewide infrastructure to exchange health information electronically
is currently the most important healthcare initiative in the State. GITA
supports this exchange initiative by carrying out roles and performing
functions most effectively undertaken at the state level.
The GITA Strategic
Initiatives Unit works in close collaboration with the nonprofit
Arizona Health-e Connection and oversees strategic State projects
related to e-Health.
GITA e-Health Initiatives
(RHITA) Rural Health
Information Technology Adoption
GITA manages the RHITA grant program to support the implementation of
healthcare information technology and healthcare information exchange
among rural healthcare providers.
(HISPC) Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration – Arizona Health
Privacy Project
GITA also manages the Arizona Health Privacy Project which was federally
funded beginning in 2006 to facilitate the sharing of electronic health
records. GITA co-chairs a multi-state collaborative to address the
sharing of electronic health information across state-line and serves on
the national Cross-Collaborative Steering Committee for the HIPSC
project.
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