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"This Webcast overviews a pilot project in Montana that demonstrates the ability to rapidly develop and deploy an affordable Health Information Exchange (HIE) that facilitates effective biosurveillance for prevention as well as response. This project has created an interoperable information infrastructure that moves data among four hospital Emergency Departments and to the National Center for Health Care Informatics and to the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. When appropriate, data of interest can then be transmitted to the Department of Homeland Security. This system supports better management of routine as well as emergency operations where potentially high mortality or morbidity situations demand regional and possibly national priority."

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