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Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients

CRISP is a joint venture between Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, MedStar Health and the University of Maryland Medical System. These organizations have created a partnership to advance health information exchange efforts in the state and collaboratively responded to the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) & Health Services Cost Review Commission’s (HSCRC) Request for Application - A Citizen-Centric Health Information Exchange for Maryland. 

These partners intend to develop CRISP as a not-for-profit membership corporation operated for the benefit of Maryland citizens

CRISP will build and operate a core health information exchange service.

As an initial pilot project, the team will develop a service to deliver patient medication history to Maryland emergency rooms to assist clinicians identify what medications patients are on during emergency visits.

The availability of core health information exchange infrastructure is intended to compel all Maryland providers to connect with the exchange, in the long run, to allow for the private and secure transfer of patient’s health information between healthcare providers when the patient has consent and provided authorization for that transfer to occur.