is a cooperative effort led by Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, and the University of Maryland Medical System.  Its primary purpose is to pursue opportunities for cooperation which can increase the availability of electronic medical information to treating clinicians.

CRISP partners have collaboratively responded to, and were awarded the contract for, the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) & Health Services Cost Review Commission’s (HSCRC) Request for Application - A Citizen-Centric Health Information Exchange for Maryland.  In February 2009, CRISP submitted its comprehensive report for statewide health information exchange in Maryland to MHCC and Governor Martin O'Malley.  

What are CRISP's guiding principles?

• Create opportunities to cooperate even while participants 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

• Begin with a manageable scope and remain incremental

• Use best practices and standards, particularly as they relate to privacy and security

• Serve the entire Maryland healthcare community