Health Information Technology (HIT)

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Health Information Technology (HIT)

• California Council on Science and Technology
• February 2009
• Alfonso F. Cardenas, UCLA

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Healthcare in 787 Billion Federal Stimulus
Package

• Assist states with Medicaid 90 billion
• Subsidize unemployed healthcare under COBRA
  program 25 billion
• Modernize HIT 21 billion
• Construction of NIH facilities and research 10
  billion
• Prevention/wellness programs 1 billion

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Task Force 3 Health Information Technology
Examine HIT infrastructure goals and efforts
for the State in the context of PM, especially
archiving and sharing of information and
materials for biomarker validation
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Candidate Topic Areas

• Examine and recommend improvements to data
  storage and management infrastructure
• Recommend policies and means of archiving and
  sharing information and materials
• Currently no clear guidelines for sharing that
  protect patients privacy and allow researchers
  access to vast amounts of information to
• validate biomarkers and supporting technologies
• improve health and medical care
• Inter-institutional mechanisms need to be
  created, taking into account legal and policy
  issues

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Candidate Topic Areas

• Assess impact of GINA and of non-genetic
  biomarker-based information on archiving and
  sharing of information and materials

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Possible Outcomes

• Recommendations to State and Privacy and Security
  Advisory Board for validating and sharing
  information, tools and materials of PM
• Scoping of potential prospective pilot for
  archiving and inter-institutional sharing of
  information and materials of PM