Objectives

SEMHIE Consortium objectives are to:

• Establish a sustainable, self-sufficient business model for the SEMHIE that aligns costs with benefits for the stakeholders
  
  
• Provide for secure, private, and efficient cross-institutional exchange of clinical and administrative healthcare data to:
  - Enhance physicians' and other healthcare providers' ability to access and use electronic health information and decision support tools to facilitate appropriate care and improve patient safety
  - Foster improvement in clinical and administrative healthcare processes through the sharing of healthcare data
  - Build the foundation to provide future support for patient education, issues affecting personal health, and public health surveillance reporting
  
  
• Create a secure, ubiquitous, and interoperable health information technology infrastructure consistent with recognized international, state and federal standards/guidelines, where applicable, to:
  - Implement a technology infrastructure that provides for proper security, authorization of users, and indexing of patient information from multiple sources
  - Drive the adoption of policies and technical standards to facilitate data gathering, information sharing, and decision-making while protecting patient privacy
  
  
• Link to national and regional efforts through use of a common trust framework, business & operating rules, technical infrastructure, and governance models for federated identity management and interoperability
  
  
• Develop and maintain an environment of trust among stakeholders