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Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Health IT Innovators since 1978
HISPC Phase 1 – 2006- 2007

The first HISPC Phase began the partnership between the federal ONC for national direction and 33 States and 1 territory for local input. RTI International has held the contract with ONC and subcontracts with the 34 participants. The Project focused on assessing variations in a broad array of stakeholder organizational-level business policy and practices, and the related, respective state laws and regulations. It is these actual practices that affect the ability of organizations to disclose protected or personal health information (PHI) and thus pose challenges to be understood and managed for the electronic exchange of health information. This 12 month Project developed solutions and implementation plans to address the Project’s findings. 

On the nationwide level, key topic areas addressed by solutions included the need to:
  • Harmonize the approach to patient permission for disclosure
  • Simplify the complex interplay among HIPAA privacy and security rules, other federal law and state laws
  • Reduce variation in interpretations of HIPAA
  • Foster trust between providers participating in exchange and among consumers permitting their information to be exchanged.
For Massachusetts HISPC the key findings impeding HIE included:
  • Stakeholder entities manage HIE with differing interpretation of privacy and security requirements from federal and state laws and regulations
  • The recognition of the compelling need to develop comprehensive communications and education strategy as critical components for future initiatives.
And Solutions identified as critical in Massachusetts included the need to:
  • Develop detailed stakeholder and experts’ consensus on the sequence or logic flow for patient consent requirements, including sensitive medical information
  • Clarify access requirements among providers and consumers
  • Address the lack of common understanding regarding privacy requirements, i.e. the critical need for consumer and provider education.
The MA HISPC Final Reports:
  • MA HISPC Report: Final Assessment of Variation and Analyses of Solutions, March 2007
  • MA HISPC Report: Final Implementation Plan, April 2007


 
 

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