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1 Stakeholder Approval
The MiHIN Shared Services Strategic Plan was endorsed by the MiHIN Governance Workgroup
by unanimous vote on April 22, 2010. Membership of the MiHIN Governance Workgroup is
listed in Appendix 1 of the MiHIN Shared Services Strategic Plan. The MiHIN Shared Services
Strategic Plan was endorsed by the Michigan Health Information Technology Commission by
unanimous vote on April 22, 2010. Membership of the Michigan Health Information Technology
Commission can be found in the Governance domain section in the MiHIN Shared Services
Strategic Plan.
2 Executive Summary
The State of Michigan and the stakeholders across Michigan who have been involved in the
development of the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) over the past years, plan to
capitalize on the progress and experience gained from this effort by responding to the
opportunities under the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program.
The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Strategic Plan is intended to communicate
the vision, goals, objectives and strategies for addressing statewide Health Information
Exchange (HIE) development in Michigan. The strategies outlined in this plan are designed to
execute on the vision of developing an open architecture that complements the progress made
by sub-state HIEs and leverages statewide shared services to accelerate statewide health
information exchange. Our intended outcome is to continuously improve and expand HIE
services over time to result in improved quality and efficiency of health care for our citizens.
2.1 Historical Perspective
The MiHIN began in 2005 when Governor Jennifer M. Granholm charged the Michigan
Department of Community Health and the Michigan Department of Information Technology with
collaborating with stakeholders to utilize Health Information Technology (HIT) and HIE to
improve quality and decrease the costs of healthcare in Michigan. In 2006 more than 200
stakeholders participated in developing a plan for guiding statewide health information
exchange, titled the MiHIN Conduit to Care. The MiHIN Conduit to Care set forth a roadmap for
ensuring that health information exchange would occur statewide, including rural and medically
underserved areas. It also set the direction for an incremental or phased approach to HIE,
provided resources for sub state HIE planning and implementation, and most importantly, set
the expectation that stakeholder engagement is critical to long term success.
The MiHIN Conduit to Care represented the first iteration of a Strategic Plan by establishing a
vision of HIE across Michigan that continues to hold true today: reducing the overall cost of care
while increasing quality and patient safety.
Michigan’s pioneering approach included the identification of nine “medical trading areas” that
cover all counties in the state in which HIEs would be developed, so as not to leave out any
portion of the state. Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) used $10 million in
MiHIN Strategic Plan
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