Effective June 25, 2010, the Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN) has released a Request for Proposal (RFP) to identify a Health Information Exchange (HIE) Solution Provider. Proposals were due on Monday, July 19th 2010. HIP TN is currently reviewing and evaluating Proposals received.

Follow this link for additional information.

The next HIP TN Board Meeting will occur on Monday, August 23, 2010. An agenda for this meeting will be posted here prior to the meeting.

The State of Tennessee submitted the Tennessee HIE State Plan (Strategic and Operational Plans) to ONC on June 7th. The State Plan has been posted to the Office of eHealth website (www.tn.gov/ehealth ). Please visit this website to review the State Plan.

HIP TN is recruiting participants to join its Technology, Clinical, Privacy & Security, Sustainability, and Consumer workgroups. HIP TN uses the following criteria to vet potential candidates:

• Are they a user of health information technology (HIT)? If they aren't a user, are they in a position to enable/support the use of health information technology?
• Have they had exposure/education regarding health information exchange (HIE)? (This is not a requirement to have been a participant/user but to have an understanding of HIE and its potential.)
• Do they have a passion for the adoption of health information technology?

Workgroup membership requires weekly conference calls in addition to an annual in-person meeting in Nashville, TN.

If you are interested or would like to nominate someone to participate on any of the HIP TN workgroups, please use the Contact Us link provided to the right and include: name, contact information, and which workgroup(s) you or your nominee(s) would like to participate in.