Description:

Financial sustainability continues to be an elusive target for HIEs and is a huge challenge for the HIE industry. This session will highlight approaches in order to identify sources to achieve financial sustainability, value and efficiency.

Speaker Information:

Gina Perez, executive director, Delaware Health Information Network

Jac Davies, director of program development, Inland Northwest Health Services

Claudia Williams, director, state health information exchange program at the Department of Health and Human Services

Objectives:

• Learn about approaches to financial sustainability focused on who is receiving the value, why are they getting value and how is value monetized;
• Discuss viable funding options with a focus on who will actually pay for HIE; and
• Discuss collaborations and expectations of the HIE.