| Region |
Name |
Contact |
Description |
Website |
| Alabama |
See GA, Sharp, for more info. |
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| Arizona |
Arizona Hospital Assn. |
Becky Kahn
602-445-4300
bkahn@azhha.org |
|
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| California |
SO Cal HIPAA Forum |
Debbie Tinsley
818-662-4700
dtinsely@covansys.com |
|
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| California |
CALINX |
Judy Chan
415-824-8833
judychan@pacbell.net |
Site explains vision
and direction of the
California based
group organized in
1996 to promote
better health care
through the use of
health information.
Background
information,
white papers. |
www.calinx.org |
Arizona/
California |
|
Carol Thompson
CBSI
562-590-2367
cthomps1@cbsinc.com |
|
|
| Colorado |
Colorado SNIP |
Steve Lazarus
303-488-9911
sslazarus@aol.com
Michael Boyson
720-489-1630
michael.boyson@chhn.com |
|
www.cosnip.com |
| Conneticut |
CHIME |
Becky Roberys
Connecticut Hospital Assn.
203-294-7306
roberts@chime.org |
|
www.chime.org |
| District of Columbia |
See VA, MAHI for more info. |
|
|
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Florida
(central) |
|
Lynda Long
Orlando Regional Healthcare
407-841-5111 ext. 32045
lyndal@orgs.org |
|
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| Florida |
|
Theresa Fuller
Florida Medicaid HIPAA Workgroup
fullert@fdhc.state.fl.us |
|
|
| Georgia |
SHARP- Southern HIPAA Administrative Regional Process |
Walt Culbertson
FutureSoft
waltculbertson@aol.com
Gil Silva
HRSA
gsilva@hrsa.gov
Cathy Benoit
HCFA
cbenoit@hcfa.gov |
Covers HCFA District
4 (NC, SC, GA, FL,
MS, TN, AL, KY) |
|
| Hawaii |
HHIC - Hawaii Health Information Corp. |
Susan Forbes
808-534-0288
sforbes@hhic.org |
|
www.hhic.org |
| Indiana |
Indiana HIPAA Workgroup
|
Chris Mickens, Chairperson -- Indiana HIPAA Workgroup
Director HIPAA Taskforce
Indiana State Department of Health
(317) 233-7673 cmickens@isdh.state.in.us
Ken Boyd, Haverstick Consulting, Inc. - (317) 816-7800
ken.boyd@HaverstickConsulting.com
|
|
indianaHIPAA.org
|
| Kentucky |
See GA, SHARP, for more info. |
|
|
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| Maryland |
See VA, MAHI for more info. |
|
|
|
| Massachusetts |
MHDC - Massachusetts Health Data Consortium |
Elliot Stone
7801-890-6040
estone@mahealthdata.org |
|
mahealthdata.org |
| Michigan |
Michigan Health Care Interchange |
Dennis McCafferty
HIAG
313-965-4121
dmccafferty@msms.org |
|
http://www.hcim.org |
| Minnesota |
MCHEC -
Minnesota Center for Healthcare Electronic Commerce |
Walter Suarez
MHDI
651-917-6700
walter.suarez@mhdi.org |
Non-profit resource
center dedicated
exclusively to the
education and
promotion of
electronic commerce.
Offers seminars and
courses for executives
and managers.
Offers the Central
Query System for online. |
www.mhdi.org |
| Mississippi |
See GA, SHARP for more info |
|
|
|
| Missouri |
Missouri SNIP |
Michelle Llewellyn
Manager, Payer Relations
Gateway EDI, Inc
314-961-2720
mllewellyn@gatewayedi.com
|
|
mosnip.com |
| Montana |
Montana SNIP |
Lisa Doyle
Birch and Davis
ldoyle@birchdavis.com |
|
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| Nebraska |
|
Kevin Conway
402-458-4910
kconway@nahhsnet.org |
|
www.nesnip.org |
Nevada
(AZ
and
NM) |
Southwest HIPAA Implementation Group |
Karen Weber
kweber7@ibm.net |
|
|
| New Hampshire |
|
Joe Bergman
NHDHHS
jbergman@dhhs.state.nh.us |
|
|
New
Jersey |
HINT - Health Information Networks and Technology Project |
Mark Gordon
609-984-1112
mgordon@tesc.edu |
|
|
New
Mexico |
|
Ralph Witeaker
St. Joseph's Healthcare
505-727-4539
ralphw@sjhs.org |
|
|
New
York |
NYHUG
|
Suzan Ryder
Empire Medicare Services
sryder@empirebcbs.com |
Focuses on testing
and business issues. |
empiremedicare.com
(click on HUG |
New
York |
Universal Data Set for Institutional Providers |
Robert Davis
NY Dept. of Health
518-473-8144
rad01@health.state.ny.us |
Focuses on translations
and current data issues. |
|
New
England |
New England States Consortium |
Joe Bergman
NH DHHS
jbergman@dhhs.state.nh.us |
NH, VT, RI, CT, MA, ME |
|
New
England |
New England HIPAA Workgroup
(NEHW) |
Susan Russell
781239-1414 ext 303
nehipaa@aol.com |
NH, VT, RI, CT, MA, ME |
|
| North Carolina |
NCHICA - North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance, Inc. |
Holt Anderson
919-558-9258
holt@nchica.org |
Non-profit consortium
of over 150 providers,
health plans, government
agencies, clearinghousees. pharmaceutical and
other healthcare
organizations that
advocate and
demonstrate through
projects the use
of information technology
and secure communications
for better, more effecient
healthcare. |
www.nchica.org |
| North Carolina |
SEE GA, SHARP, for more info. |
|
|
|
North
Dakota |
North Dakota HIPAA Consortium |
Jennifer Kunz
ND Dept. of Human Services
701-328-1721
sokunj@state.nd.us |
|
|
| Ohio |
|
Nancy Pekkanen Gillette
Ohio State Medical Assn.
614-527-6762
gillette@osma.org |
|
|
| Oregon |
Oregon HIAA Forum |
Paul Frisch
OR Medical Assn
pfrisch@ormedassn.org
John Christiansen
206-386-7520
jchristiansen@stoel.com |
Background information
and white papers |
|
| Pennsylvania |
E-Pennsylvania Alliance |
Marlowe Froke
814-466-6835
mdf2@psu.edu
Martin Ciccocioppo
The Hospital & Healthsystem Assn of PA
717-561-5363
martinc@hap2000.org |
|
|
South
Carolina |
See GA, SHARP, for more info. |
|
|
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| Tennessee |
See GA, SHARP, for more info. |
|
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| Texas |
|
Viola Hebert
The Univ. of TX
713-745-4515
vhebert@mail.mdanderson.org
Akin Ogunrinade
TX Dept. of Health
512-794-6857
akin.ogunrinade@tdh.state.tx.us |
|
|
Texas
(Central) |
|
Kara Gerace
LifeCare Management Services
469-241-2104
karag@lifecare-hospitals.com |
|
|
| Virginia |
MAHI -
MidAtlantic HIPAA Health Initiative
(VA, MD, DC) |
Ruth Tucci-Kaufhold
UNISYS Corp.
804-346-1138
rtucci-kaufhold@mahicentral.org
Joseph Schein
Axiom Systems
757-270-3069
jschein@mahicentral.org |
|
mahicentral.org
|
| Utah |
UHIN - Utah Health Information Network |
Bart Killian
Jan Root
801-466-7705
janroot@uhin.com |
|
www.uhin.com |
| Washington |
CHITA |
Elizabeth Ward
Foundation for Health Care Quality
206-662-2811 Ext 17
eward@qualityhealth.org |
A project of the
Foundation for Health
Care Quality. |
www.chita.org |
