What is the Michigan Health Information Alliance HIE Project?
The HIE project started with a planning grant from the State of Michigan as part of the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) initiative. The HIE grant officially started June 18th of 2007 and extended through September 2008. MiHIA used this time to develop a vision, medical priority list, common agenda, data sharing framework, confidentiality and security procedures, and a sustainability model designed to support an implementation plan created at the end of the 16 month period. However, in February 2009 the state of Michigan announced that the approach that the state will support going forward is a centralized approach, and that any regional activities alone will not be supported with state funds. The HIE project will continue to move forward, however the HIT Commission will advise the state on implementation of the HIE in all of the 9 regions that Michigan was originally divided into to utilize economies of scale and to provide a more viable business plan to ensure HIE implemen
