CRISP is Maryland’s statewide health information exchange. Health information exchange, or HIE, allows clinical information to move electronically among disparate health information systems. The goal of HIE is to deliver the right health information to the right place at the right time—anywhere in Maryland—providing safer, more timely, efficient, effective, equitable, patient-centered care. As one example of the application of HIE, a patient’s discharge summary from a hospital visit could be securely and electronically delivered to his or her primary care physician, providing for more seamless continuity of care.  Combined with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records by hospitals and physicians, HIE is one of the two critical components to building a truly integrated, 21st-century healthcare delivery system.