Improving Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality
The TechQuest Health Information Exchange (TQ-HIE) was established as an Industry Partnership to bring together industry, academic and government leaders to advance patient safety, medical innovation, healthcare quality and advanced, interoperable eHealth technologies throughout Pennsylvania. The TQ-HIE is focused on working to deploy advanced technologies in the healthcare sector. We believe technology innovation is a great pathway to improving patient safety and healthcare quality. The Advisory Board supports the federated model serving as the foundation for all of our TQ-HIE efforts and through its efforts builds a strong foundation for the TECHQuest Health Information Exchange. In each of its priority projects, the Advisory Board takes a regional leadership approach for support of necessary broadband infrastructure; workforce and training; deployment strategies; and awareness and public relations.
TechQuest Health Information Exchange Advisory Board
- Kelly Lewis, President and CEO, TECHQuest Pennsylvania
- Chair: Mike Fiaschetti, Senior Vice President, Highmark
- Vice-Chair: Jim Talalai, Senior Vice President, Select Medical Corporation
- Edith Dees, Vice President and CIO, Holy Spirit Hospital
- Doug Dyer, President & CEO, PCI Insurance
- Jerry Hair, Manager, Deloitte
- Matt Vogel, Vice President, Highmark
- Scott Malen, Executive Dirctor Federal Affairs, Stevens & Lee
- David Paterno, President & CEO, Sage Life Technologies
- Steven Roth, CIO, Pinnacle Health
- Karen Sarabok, Principal, Momentum, Inc.
- Roderick Savidge, Senior Associate and Director of Human Resources, Gannett Fleming
- Kent Whiting, Vice President of Information Technology, Capital Blue Cross
TechQuest EMR/HIE Adoption and Use Committee
Chaired by Edith Dees, CIO, Holy Spirit Hospital, this committee has been charged with expediting community benefits gained by interconnected health information technology at the point-of-care in order to position the greater Harrisburg metropolitan area (including Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties) for ARRA funding. Specific tactics include
- Raising regional and statewide awareness of benefits of Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Prescription (ePrescription), Health Information Exchanges (HIE) and other health information tehnologies and innovations.
- Determining baseline by benchmarking existing adoption and use rates as a starting point. Then, working toward the community goal of greater than 70% adoption and use in order to create a robust health information exchange and economies of scale.
- Leveraging regional resources in order to achieve economies of scale by establishing full spectrum toolboxes of service offerings including IT services, data center hosting, training/consulting services, financing options, and standardizing interfaces, master files, service level agreements, hardware, and technologies intended to increase EMR and HIE adoption and use rates.
- Developing post-implementation Business and Clinical Analytics.
- Developing Security and Privacy standards for compliance and best practices.
There are four subgroups withing this committee: Governance, Marketing/Outreach, Front End Adoption and Usage.
This committee meets the fourth Friday of every month at 8:00am at TQ headquarters.
For more information and documentation, please visit HarrisburgHIE.techquestpa.com