The Central and North Florida HIMSS Chapter (CNFHIMSS) is pleased to announce that Florida International University students Katherine Fischer, Mark Israel and Shaista Mohammed led by faculty supervisors Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Ph.D., Gloria J. Deckard, Ph.D., and Nancy Borkowski, DBA, have been awarded a $15,000 grant to study stakeholder distrust as a barrier to Health Care Information Exchange (HIE) participation in the state of Florida.
It has been recognized that distrust among health care providers is perhaps the greatest deterrent to exchange of data and little research has focused on identifying the cause or remedy for this distrust. “With this grant, we are confident that the students at FIU, through investigative research and analysis, will be able to identify feasible strategies that can be implemented to help engage health care providers,” said CNFHIMSS HIE Co-Chair Duane Steward. “The ultimate goal is to breakdown the barriers that exist relative to the adoption and participation of HIE, and instead start building a platform of trust in the use of electronic medical record data.” The final written report and presentation of findings are planned for June 2010.
