This playbook was written as an “HIE for dummies” style reference and is designed to benefit those that are less familiar with health technology or those that might understand one system (e.g., your EHR), but need to better understand the complex web of systems that make up our health IT landscape. Clinical staff, executive leadership, administrative staff, care coordination staff, and even IT staff may benefit from different components of this guide.
In this first part of an ongoing web series, the co-authors of the Oregon Health IT Playbook—Jill Leake and Justin Keller—discuss the structure of the playbook and what it’s intended to do. Please return each month for future sessions that dive deeper into specific topics.
In the second part of the ongoing Playbook web series, Justin Keller reviews the section on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) from the perspective of how HIPAA both protects security of information and enables health information exchange between technologies and healthcare partners.
In the third part of our ongoing Playbook web series, Jill and Justin discuss the section that categorizes common health IT tools in Oregon, including tools that are used for data entry; data aggregators that transmit data between systems; and analytics tools that produce reports and other business needs. This sets the foundation for future topics.
