Defining features of a CHIN are that its services are available to all stakeholders
Statewide Health Information Network for New YorkSHIN-NY NYeC Defining features of a CHIN are that its services are available to all stakeholders and that competitors collaborate to share information. The initial impetus for a CHIN is usually to facilitate paying for health care or to share clinical records. Complex legal, organizational, zona-viral funding, and control issues confront CHIN initiators, and reliable models do not exist today. During development, issues of program focus and technology selection arise, followed by concerns about information privacy and the CHIN's role in quality of care. Organizational scope A rigorous screening procedure was implemented to determine which documents should be abstracted for the system (refer to "The Intelligent Corpo-ration," Ruth Stanat, Amacom Spring 1990). Additionally, the data format included a section for "key findings" which enabled the user of the database to determine the relevance or value of the d...