Join us in Nashville, TN for the joint Sequoia Project and Carequality 2025 Annual Meeting – Learn More
Join us in Nashville, TN for the joint Sequoia Project and Carequality 2025 Annual Meeting – Learn More
A Community of Practice leveraging the strength of the membership of the workgroup and focuses on concepts where the group could have a meaningful impact.
Submit Feedback to InteropMatters@sequoiaproject.org by December 15
This workgroup provides a forum to learn about health information technology innovations impacting public health. The workgroup will focus on concepts that create potential challenges for states in terms of interoperability and Health IT modernization in the public health area.
Download the PDF White Paper to review The Sequoia Project’s Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup’s complete Pandemic Response Insights and Recommendations. The PDF contains the SWOT Analysis, as well as the complete recommendation breakdowns.
Key concepts and items to consider to improve disaster response utilizing technology innovations and best practices across states, HIEs, HINs and partners.
Create a Community of Practice where Public Health, Medicaid and other state agencies/entities, etc and federal partners can discuss innovations and blockers to those innovations.
Initial membership includes states, federal partners, HIEs and others:
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
California Emergency Medical Services Authority
California Medical Assistance Team
eHealth Exchange
Epic
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Florida Dept of Health
Foothold Technology
HCA Healthcare
Health Tech Solutions
HIMSS
KONZA
Los Angeles County Dept of Health
North Carolina Health and Human Services
New York City Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene
Oracle Health
Texas e-Health Alliance
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Virginia Health Information
Washington State Public Health
Washington State Public Health
To expand the scope of the work, it is necessary to expand the scope of the membership to others, in particular, to other states who are frequently engaged in disaster response.
In 2018, The Sequoia Project was a steward for the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE), a program that was conceived by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and launched the PULSE Advisory Council. In 2021, The PULSE Advisory Council transformed into the Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup.
Learn more about the history of PULSE and the work of the PULSE Advisory Council that led to the formation of the EPIW here.
