New Mexico Health Information Collaborative

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New Mexico Health Information Collaborative

• Political Challenges of Coordinating and
  Integrating Statewide HIT Projects
• Maggie Gunter, PhD
• Project Director/Principal Investigator
• June 9, 2005

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LOVELACE CLINIC FOUNDATION

• Non-profit institute
• applied health research
• medical education
• Established in 1990
• Extensive expertise and experience in disease
  management and community-based projects
• Lead agency for NMHIC project

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NEW MEXICO HEALTH INFORMATION COLLABORATIVE

• NMHIC
• Community-wide effort to build a health
  information exchange
• Objective to allow the sharing of timely and
  privacy protected health care information among
  health systems and plans
• 3-year project 1.5 million AHRQ grant plus 1.5
  community match initiated October 2004

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NMHIC GOALS

• Patients
• Web access to personal health care information to
  enhance self-management
• Providers (including school nurses)
• Web access to cross-system health information at
  point of care enhanced information for diabetes
  and pediatric asthma
• Patient educational tool
• Employers
• Aggregate reports to guide workplace health
  promotion programs
• Researchers/Policy Makers
• Access to comprehensive data

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AWARENESS OF MULTIPLE STATEWIDE IT PROJECTS

• Who are they?
• What are they doing?
• Turf issues
• Need for coordination
• Synergies
• Duplications
• Confusion

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MEETING OF STATE-WIDE HIT PROJECTS

• PI recognized need for neutral convener
• Approached CMO of New Mexico Department of Health
  
• Significance of meeting
• Goals and desired outcomes of meeting
• Importance of DOH as lead agency
• DOH agreed to convene meeting

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DOH STATE-WIDE HIT MEETING

• Held January 19, 2005
• Attendees
• NMHIC Project Team members
• NM Telehealth Alliance
• NMMRA (states QIO)
• UNM Hepatitis C Outreach Project
• State Immunization Registry
• DOHs CMO and CIO
• Summaries of each project presented
• Participant enthusiasm for benefits of
  coordination high
• Outcome Develop state-wide IT project steering
  committee

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BENEFITS FROM MEETING

• Early relationship building
• Clearer understanding of goals of other projects
• Increased visibility for NMHIC
• Involvement of DOH
• Ideas generated regarding collaboration

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SUBSEQUENT OUTCOMES FROM MEETING

• Ongoing informal meetings
• Small planning group formed
• Initial plans for creation of NM Regional Health
  Information Organization (RHIO)
• Neutral convener for RHIO planning
• NMMRA
• Facilitator - national IT expert
• Series of meetings

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GROUP DISCUSSION

• Questions
• Similar experiences?
• Challenges faced and resolutions
• Lessons learned

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Maggie Gunter, PhD
• President and Executive Director
• Lovelace Clinic Foundation
• 2309 Renard Place SE, Suite 103
• Albuquerque, NM 87106
• 505-262-7857
• Maggie_at_LCFResearch.org