Vision
GIVES is a collaborative state government health care focus group resulting in the sharing of information through a clearinghouse highway and providing a forum for discussing and resolving issues in meeting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation.

Mission
GIVES has been established to meet the immediate need to exchange information, identify common government challenges and share solutions in order to attain HIPAA compliance in the timeframe required. By providing a government-focused network, our goal is to minimize duplicate effort.

Goals

• Establishing an information clearinghouse via a national web site for exchanging individual state deliverables (e.g., budget framework, Program Management Office (PMO) structure, etc.); and
• Providing a forum (e.g., FAQs, conference calls, etc.) for states to discuss and resolve issues.

• Solicit a core group of government entities to establish and maintain this service.
• Organize an initial conference call with the core group to review and finalize the vision, mission and goals and determine timeline.
• Define roles and responsibilities of participants.
• Develop a project plan for completing deliverables including:
• Developing an initial list of requirements to be addressed through the information clearinghouse.
• Defining the access methods and audience for the national web site.
• Planing, building and managing the web site.
• Developing a schedule for ongoing communication among the states.
• Developing a communication strategy to promote awareness and utilization of the service.