Organization Profile
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients
Organization Overview
CRISP (Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients) is Maryland’s statewide health information exchange. Health information exchange, or HIE, allows clinical information to move electronically among disparate health information systems. The goal of HIE is to deliver the right health information to the right place at the right time—providing safer, more timely, efficient, effective, equitable, patient-centered care.
CRISP is a not-for-profit membership corporation advised by a wide range of stakeholders responsible for the healthcare of Maryland’s citizens. We receive input and advice from patients; hospital systems; physicians; insurance providers; technology providers; privacy advocates; public health officials; and advocates for seniors, the uninsured, and the medically underserved. CRISP is formally designated Maryland’s statewide HIE by the Maryland Health Care Commission, as directed by the state’s legislature and Gov. Martin O’Malley.
Our Mission: To advance the health and wellness of Marylanders by deploying health information technology solutions adopted through cooperation and collaboration. We will enable the Maryland healthcare community to appropriately and securely share data, facilitate and integrate care, create efficiencies, and improve outcomes.
Our Vision: To realize measurable improvement in the health and wellness of Marylanders through the adoption and use of health information technology and the effective support of and cooperation with healthcare providers and citizens of our state.
Our Guiding Principles:
•Begin with a manageable scope and remain incremental.
•Create opportunities to cooperate even while participating healthcare organizations still compete in other ways.
•Affirm that competition and market-mechanisms spur innovation and improvement.
•Promote and enable consumers’ control over their own health information.
•Be flexible to support both distributed and data bank models.
•Use best practices and standards.
•Serve the entire Maryland healthcare community.