You can accomplish this by (1) selecting a population-oriented use for electronic data (examples: disaster management, bioterrorism surveillance, community healthcare tracking); (2) advocating how information interoperability and information exchange can be efficiently achieved; and (3) demonstrating how data stewardship can be accomplished using secondary databases and population databases.

Your project plan should include:

1. Selection of a population-oriented use for electronic data that would be important to share with a community HIE program.
2. Using Microsoft Word or Excel, build a table for the information to be collected for the patients from your chosen population-oriented use. This data dictionary will be utilized by the community HIE for treating/identifying patients. The data dictionary should have at least four columns, including:
   • Field name
   • Definition of field
   • Format
   • Example