The HIE infrastructure organization’s Sheena Patel, M.D., describes setting up an Implementation Center as part of a CDC program
Last year, nonprofit HIE infrastructure company CRISP Shared Services (CSS) was named one of three Implementation Centers for the CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Grant program to help with public health data modernization. The organization’s public health leader, Sheena Patel, M.D., recently spoke with Healthcare Innovation about her team’s efforts to engage public health agencies to identify and close data gaps.
CSS supports health information exchange organizations in several states, including CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE) and Health Data Utility (HDU); CRISP DC, serving the District of Columbia; Connie, Connecticut’s state-designated HIE; Virginia Health Information, the state-designated health data organization in Virginia; West Virginia Health Information Network, which serves as the state’s only HIE; and healthEconnect, Alaska’s state-designated HIE.
The infrastructure grant program, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tasks CSS with providing infrastructure and implementation services to dozens of public health agencies over the next three years.
