Speaker Name(s): Helene Nelson
Description: Building of health information networks is considered critical in the effort to enhance patient safety and quality while reducing health care costs. Before electronic medical records can become a widespread reality, there must exist standards for the safe, secure and accurate exchange of these records and their content. In an effort to foster this clinical information exchange in Wisconsin, Governor Jim Doyle formed a board of experts, the eHealth Care Quality and Patient Safety Board, to establish standards for electronic medical records sharing and storage. In this session attendees will hear from Wisconsin's Secretary of Health and Family Services, Helene Nelson who will provide an update on the Board's effort to develop a five year road map to provide up-to-date electronic patient information at the point of care. In addition, she will review what organizations can do to assist in this state-wide effort.