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NASCIO Releases Brief on the Role of the State CIO in Health IT

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), which represents the chief information officers (CIOs) of the states, released a brief on the role of the state CIO in health IT.

The brief, titled "The (IT) Doctor Is In: The Role of the State CIO in Health IT," http://www.nascio.org/publications/Role%20of%20the%20State%20CIO%20in%20HIT%20060222.pdf was developed as part of the work of NASCIO’s 2005-06 Health IT Committee, led by co-chairs Larry Biggio, CIO of Wyoming, and Steve Dawson, CIO of New Jersey.

The brief is intended to help state CIOs — along with other stakeholders and policymakers — determine the appropriate role of the state CIO in guiding their states’ enterprise IT in keeping with the larger national effort to save lives and money in healthcare.

"We hope that this brief will jumpstart thinking by state CIOs on this issue. They may not know that some of their peers are already formally engaged in health IT," said Dawson. "The train is leaving the station, but there’s still time to catch it."

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