HealthIT Answers November 19, 2024
By Terah Tessier and Laura McCrary, ASTP/ONC
ASTP launched the Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health via Health Information Exchange (STAR HIE Program) in 2020. In 2021, it was expanded to increase support for efforts to improve vaccination data sharing between state and local immunization information systems (IIS) and HIEs. KONZA in Topeka, Kansas was among the 22 recipients that received a combined $5 million in funds from ASTP via the CARES Act.
We sat down with the KONZA National Network team, one of the initial awardees, to learn how the STAR HIE Program helped support the state’s public health agency exchange health information during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Answers have been edited for clarity.)
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