State Medical Society
HIE/ACO Meeting
January 18-19, 2010
Washington, DC

As was discussed at the most recent AAMSE State Medical Society CEO meeting and the follow-up HIT/HIE discussion group meeting during the AMA Interim in San Diego, there is a strong interest in jointly planning and pursuing the most feasible role for state medical societies in supporting physicians in health information exchange and ACO activities. A core team was established to plan the next steps and the outcome of this planning is a 1.5-day meeting to be held in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with eHealth Initiative's annual conference in January.

The goal of this meeting is to make high-level decisions on possible directions/strategies to pursue for state medical societies. To help our discussions, we have obtained confirmations of attendance from several outside advisors specializing in HIT, HIE and ACOs.

Issues:

• How are state medical societies working with their local eHealth/HIE entities?
• What role can or should state medical societies play in directing physicians to HIE entities?
• What training is being offered to physicians by state medical societies?
• How can state medical societies work together to share information and resources and have additional support for their membership?
• How HIE and HIT tie into ACOs?
• How societies look at the legal issues tied to HIE for themselves as organizations and their respective members?