The use of technology in medical care involves not only issues regarding HIPAA compliance, but also the ability to store and share sensitive medical records among various authorized individuals and entities. Records management and automation, confidentiality, access, storage, interoperability between disparate systems, system architecture, budgeting are also concerns of local governments.
"Alisoun not only recognizes the problems that exist in health care technology management today," said Alan Shark, executive director of PTI, "but she has become a strong advocate for encouraging local government technology leaders to think about how they can apply their unique management skills and organizational insight in addressing the technology gaps in health care services."
Over the next three months, PTI will invite interested local officials to join the Task Force on Health Care Technology for Cities & Counties. The task force will then will develop a research agenda that will target the priority issues identified by task force members, as well as develop educational material (white papers, articles, web-based resources) to raise awareness of how effective deployment of technology applications and management practices can positively impact the delivery of health care services.
