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DPH outlines multi-year health IT vision, prioritizing infrastructure and clinical informatics
Summary
DPH Chief Information Officer Bill Kim told the Health Commission the department will prioritize foundational infrastructure (fiber networking, stability), build a clinical informatics support team, and pursue a blueprint-driven EHR/integration approach over several years with a target of full integration by 2018, contingent on funding.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) presented a multi-year health information-technology strategy that emphasizes shoring up unstable infrastructure, creating clinical-informatics capacity, and using a blueprint-driven approach before purchasing major electronic health record (EHR) systems.
Bill Kim, DPH chief information officer, said current IT conditions include frequent unplanned outages (about one unanticipated outage per month), slow network speeds at some clinics and end-of-life equipment. To fix that foundation, Kim said the department has…
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