Health Information Exchange Pilot Project
The members of the Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council (CCSNPC) have a vision that Chatham County's health care delivery structure will develop a fully integrated health information exchange (HIE) that improves health care quality and improves health outcomes for all patients. To accomplish this vision, CCSNPC created the CCSNPC Health Information Technology project in late 2006. The project's goal was to expand the use of health information technology (HIT) and promote its use in the delivery of health care in our community. The project sought and successfully received funding through the Georgia Department of Community Health and the Health Resources and Services Administration.Leadership and governance was provided by the CCSNPC IT Consortium. The IT Consortium is comprised of representatives of the information technology staff of Memorial Health University Medical Center, St. Joseph's Candler Health Systems, Community Health Mission, St. Mary's Health Center, Good Samaritan, J.C. Lewis Primary Healthcare Center, Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care and Chatham County Health Department. Ms. Patty Lavely, CIO, Memorial University Medical Center was the Consortium Chair and the meetings were hosted by CCSNPC's community partner, Savannah Business Group. The group engaged the healthcare community in adoption of health information technology and completed all planning, information gathering and due diligence necessary to launch the ChathamHealthLink
The deliverables of the grant from the Georgia Department of Community Health were complete as of March 31, 2010.
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