Health Information Network (HIN) leading practices

It provides these individuals with information and tools they can use to objectively assess the current state of their HINs (and HIN stakeholders and participants), and to develop plans through which they can enhance the capability of the HINs so as to improve the overall level of access, quality, cost and productivity of health care planning and delivery. [...] A HIN, in the context of this document, is an organization which provides three key sets of core capabilities: 1. Information Exchange and Interoperability The HIN provides the facilitation and coordination of clinical information exchange among various stakeholders in a private and secure way, including transmission of information and the management of exchange among the health care stakeholders [...] The deployment of the different models has been observed to be driven by three differentiating environmental characteristics: The original motivating force behind the model deployed The organizations and individuals who are the key motivators behind the scope and features of the solution The technology and organizational platform used to build and deliver the services. [...] Most of the successful HIE organizations report that their stakeholders are engaged and consistently act in a way to achieve a greater results based on a common set of principles and a vision for the system The existence of a regulatory framework, and the ability and willingness to enforce it, enables strong leaders to bring the various stakeholders to the table to achieve adoption and complianc [...] Balanced application of bottom-up and top-down identification and prioritization of initiatives While most of the leading HIE organizations reviewed reported active stakeholder engagement for identifying priorities and timing for which capabilities to develop, many also reported that the management and leadership of the HIE organization provide direction for features and capabilities.