Minnesota Agencies

Advises Commissioner of Health on the following matters: assessment of the use of health information technology by the state, licensed health care providers and facilities, and local public health agencies; recommendations for implementing a statewide interoperable health information infrastructure, to include estimates of necessary resources, and for determining standards for administrative data exchange, clinical support programs, patient privacy requirements, and maintenance of the security and confidentiality of individual patient data; other related issues as requested by the commissioner.

2009 Minn. Laws Chap. 102 Sec. 1 changed the Health Information Technology and Infrastructure Advisory Committee to the Minnesota e-Health Advisory Committee.

Includes commissioners, or commissioners' designees of health, human services, administration, and commerce and additional members to be appointed by the commissioner to include persons representing Minnesota's local public health agencies, licensed hospitals and other licensed facilities and providers, private purchases, the medical nursing professions, health insurers and health plans, long term care providers, the state quality improvement organization, academic and research institutions, consumer advisory organizations with an interest and expertise in health information technology, and other stakeholders as identified by the Advisory Committee.