Stakeholders / Communities of Interest | Description |
Individual Providers | Healthcare providers with patient care responsibilities including physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, emergency care providers, home health providers, definitive care providers, pharmacists and other personnel involved in patient care. |
Provider Organizations | Organizations that are engaged in or support the delivery of healthcare to include Hospitals, Ambulatory Centers, Provider Practices, Integrated Delivery Networks, Community Health Agencies and Rehabilitation Centers. |
Query Thought Leaders | Organizations leading implementations of queries in the real-world. |
Government Agencies | Federal, State, HIOs, Local agencies and other organizations implementing queries. |
Standards Organizations | Organizations whose purpose is to define, harmonize and integrate standards that will meet clinical and business needs for sharing information among organizations and systems |
Health Information Exchange (HIE)/ Health Information Organization (HIO)* | HIE/HIO - Health Information Exchange (HIE) is defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system |
Health IT Vendors – EHR/ EMR/ PHR/ Third party data receivers | Vendors which provide specific EHR/PHR solutions to clinicians such as software applications and software services. These suppliers may include developers, providers, resellers, operators, the innovation community, and others who may provide these or similar capabilities. |
Other Healthcare Vendors | Vendors that provide health care solutions other than EHR/EMR/PHR solutions such as software applications and services. Examples include: integration vendors, data providers, medical device vendors, Release of Information (ROI) Vendors, RMMS (Remote Monitoring Management System) vendors, diagnostic imaging service provider, clinical order system supply vendor, transcription service vendors, clearinghouses, drug knowledge suppliers, network infrastructure provider, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) resource system, practice-based registry system suppliers, public health registry system, immunization information system providers, clinical genetic database/repository system vendor, etc. |
Privacy and Security Experts | Consumer/patient and technology experts who represent the public's and organization interests for privacy and security. |
Patients | Members of the public who receive healthcare services from ambulatory, emergency department, physician’s office, and/or a public health agency/department. While patient information is being exchanged as part of the eMDR, the patient is not a direct participant in this use case. |
Patient Advocates | Patient advocates who act as liaisons between a patient, healthcare provider(s) and research institutions. |
Beacon Communities | Selected communities of groups who have received federal funding through the ONC to build and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) infrastructure and exchange capabilities to improve care coordination, increase the quality of care, and slow the growth of health care spending. |
Federal Agencies | Organizations within the federal government that deliver, regulate or provide funding for health and health care |
Public Health Agencies | Public Health Agencies who query data for public health purposes and provide data for others to query. |
3rd Party Clinical Application Vendors | Vendors who provide innovative applications that supplement the EHRs, PHRs and other HealthIT systems and focus on improving patient care. |
Healthcare Organizations | Healthcare Organizations who query data for various purposes and provide data for others to query. These organizations include specialty areas such as Behavioral Health organizations, Dental organizations, Cardiology, Radiology, Labs etc. The requirements for these specialty areas may vary depending on laws, regulations and other business workflow needs. |