Thirty-three states and 1 territory formed the HISPC, which aims to address the privacy and security challenges presented by electronic health information exchange through multi-state collaboration. With the support of its state or territorial governor, each team engaged a steering committee and a range of local stakeholders to 1) assess variations in organization-level business policies and state laws that affect health information exchange; 2) identify and propose practical solutions, while preserving the privacy and security requirements in applicable Federal and State laws and 3) develop detailed plans to implement solutions.
In phase 1 of HISPC, the Puerto Rico team completed the work summarized above. In phase 2, each state implemented a state-specific project and planned for multi-state collaboration in phase 3. Puerto Rico's phase 2 project produced four products: a twelve month implementation plan to establish and further the objectives of the Health Information Exchange Committee (HIE Committee); a security and privacy policy model for the Integrated Health Information System; a security and privacy policy for two of it's major HIT components; and a health information exchange patient consent clause and formalized HIE committee.
