Louisiana Health Information Exchange DesignSession

Coordination
team a: Gery Berry, Susan Christensen, Carol Diamond, Mark Frisse, Cheryl Gray,
Jeannine Hinton, Janet Marchibroda, Lee Stevens, Tony Sun, Roxane Townsend

Assignment: We have just completed a round of work in which each individual in the room was given an opportunity to discuss their current reality, both personally and professionally. This round of work is focused on pushing several years into the future.

Your team is comprised of a representative set of organizations vital to the success of executing against the LACare Health Information Exchange (HIE) contract. This is likely the first chance you have had to gather as a group and discuss what Louisiana’s aspirations are for this work.

Before LACare HIE can become operational, it will need to develop policies, procedures, and standards. To start, LACare HIE will need consensus on how it intends to:
• Maintain a guiding coalition (against competitive ideas, etc.)
• Govern itself,
• Sustain itself financially,
• Keep the public trust by ensuring the privacy of participating entities and their patients,
• Support public health initiatives and other strategies,
• Identifying the near term beneficiaries,
• Communicate its plans and client organization expectations/obligations.

This conversation is not about technology. Any comments that come up with regard to technology should be aside for future discussions.
As a team pull together the next iteration of this story. Build off of the work already accomplished where possible. Add new information where you find holes in the story. Remember, you are not solving the problem right now; you are identifying the areas where you will need to reach agreement. Your team has 90 minutes to complete this work. You will receive Hypertiles with 15 minutes remaining in the work period to capture your thoughts in preparation for reporting to the larger group.

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Market 1: New Orleans
team b: Karen DeSalvo, Eric Ford, Amy Helwig, Mike Kaiser, Tony Keck, Will Rice,
Emily Welebob,Wayne Wilbright, Clayton Williams, Lynn Witherspoon

Your team is comprised of a representative set of organizations vital to the success of executing against the LACare Health Information Exchange (HIE) contract in the New Orleans Market. This is likely the first chance you have had to gather as a group to discuss what New Orleans aspirations are for HIE.

Other teams are working on the state-wide coordination and the technical solution. Your team’s assignment is to describe the New Orleans Market’s perspective on HIE.

At the end of this working period, your team should be able to communicate the how the New Orleans Market is approaching HIE. Specifically, think through:
What is the relative importance of the HIE project in your market:
• Compared to internal institution projects (IT and non-IT)?
• Compared to other market wide non-IT projects?
• Compared to other state-wide health information exchange projects?
  - How much have the leading institutions within your market prepared for
     exchanging health information?
  - What new information do you need to prepare your market for HIE?

As a team pull together information together. Your team has 90 minutes to complete this work. You will receive Hypertiles with 15 minutes remaining in the work period to capture your thoughts in preparation for reporting to the larger group.

[view team report]

Market 2: Baton Rouge
team c: Bill Braithwaite, Michelle Lemming, Gary Marti, Stephanie Mills, Cindy Munn,
Sandy Pittman, Thomas Salas, Jenny Smith, Ob Soonthornsima, Frank Wesley

Your team is comprised of a representative set of organizations vital to the success of executing against the LACare Health Information Exchange (HIE) contract in the Baton Rouge Market. This is likely the first chance you have had to gather as a group to discuss what Baton Rouge’s aspirations are for HIE.

Other teams are working on the state-wide coordination and the technical solution. Your team’s assignment is to describe the Baton Rouge Market’s perspective on HIE.

At the end of this working period, your team will communicate the status of how the Baton Rouge Market is approaching HIE. Specifically, think through:
What is the relative importance of the LACare HIE project in your market:
• Compared to internal institution projects (IT and non-IT)?
• Compared to other market wide non-IT projects?
• Compared to other state-wide health information exchange projects?
  - How much have the leading institutions within your market prepared for exchanging
    health information?
  - What new information do you need to prepare your market for HIE?

[view team report]

Technical
team d: Barr Bauer, Mike Garcia, Peter Greaves, Tom Kelliher, Stewart Lawler,
Sandra Lode, Dawn Mays, Marc Overhage, Zahid Rathore, Jeff Penton, Denise Tingle

Your team is comprised of the set of organizations vital to the success of executing against the technical solution for the LACare Health Information Exchange (HIE).

Other teams are working on the state-wide coordination and defining the status of each market’s preparations to accept the LACare HIE solution. Your team’s assignment is to provide the status of the progress the technical team is making on the development of the infrastructure.

At the end of this working period, your team will communicate the status of the HIE technical solution. Specifically, think through:
• What is your framework for implementing the technical solution?
Which stage of the framework is the team in?
• What is your team’s timeline for completing the technical infrastructure?
• What functionality will be available to client institutions initially? How will functionality
change over time?
• Describe the technical architecture to meet the functionality.

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