The Southeast Regional HIT-HIE Collaboration is an initiative that began in 2010 to develop a strategic plan for sharing health information data among states in the Southeast and Gulf regions during and after a disaster. The group is known as SERCH.
The report offers five recommendations for state HIEs and their operations during and after a disaster:
• Understand a state’s disaster-response policies and align with the state’s emergency support agency before a disaster occurs.
• Develop standard procedures and get relevant approval to share electronic records before a disaster occurs.
• Consider enacting a memorandum of understanding that offers a limitation on liability for wrongful release of records during a disaster.
• Assess the state’s availability of health information sources and the ability to share information electronically.
• Consider a phased approach to creating interstate electronic health information-sharing capabilities.
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