Federal and State Collaboration Efforts

Federal and State Collaboration Efforts
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Federal and State Collaboration Efforts
Federal and State Collaboration Efforts involving Florida
The country’s federal, state, and even local levels have various independent roles to play in different sectors, including the health segment. However, there is always the collaboration aspect, which is meant to build significant capacity and improve the health outcomes among patients even more. Florida coordinates and cooperates with other crucial agencies in projects that facilitate information exchange and promote patient safety. For instance, via partnerships with organizations and health agencies working for children and their families, Florida developed an Advisory Council to facilitate an increasingly organized system to offer funding and responsive services support for the kids and their families. Florida’s Advisory Council has a robust, responsive, and more cohesive early childhood system.
Florida’s Participation in HISPC
Direct motivation to steal health information exists, which calls upon implementing mechanisms to safeguard all patient information. Many states participate in the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) to find long-term solutions to ensure health information interchange. Florida is no exception among the active HISPC participants that also translate and apply HISPC-based regulations. The Florida administration required the Agency for Health Care Administration to generate a strategy to enable the acceptance and execution of electronic health records (EHRs). Hence, the Harmonizing State Privacy Law was formed and is crucial since it maintains the confidentiality of a patient’s health data exchange and assures a sense of comfort to society (Health IT, 2018). Overall, collaborating with other states and their governments is helpful because it assists in reducing health information exchange discrep...