About CRISP DC
A Health Information Exchange, or HIE, is a way of sharing health information among participating doctors’ offices, hospitals, care coordinators, labs, radiology centers, community-based organizations, managed care organizations and other healthcare providers through secure, electronic means.
There are many health care delivery scenarios driving the technology behind the different forms of health information exchange available today. The purpose is so that each participating healthcare provider can have the benefit of the most recent information available from other participating providers. Information flowing through the HIE can also be made available to researchers with appropriate consent through a careful review and approval process.

Timeline
Mission – Vision – Guiding Principles
Our Mission
We will enable and support the healthcare community of the District and our region to appropriately and securely share data in order to facilitate care, reduce costs, and improve health outcomes.
Our Vision
To advance health and wellness by deploying health information technology solutions adopted through cooperation and collaboration.
Our Guiding Principles
- Begin with a manageable scope and remain incremental.
- Affirm that competition and market-mechanisms spur innovation and improvement.
- Serve our region’s entire healthcare community.
- Create opportunities to cooperate even while participating healthcare organizations still compete in other ways.
- Promote and enable consumers’ control over their own health information.
- Use best practices and standards.
District Designated Through the DC HIE
The DC HIE is a system of HIE entities that meet common privacy and security standards to support the secure electronic exchange of health information. HIE entities participating in the DC HIE will attest to meeting certain privacy, security, use, and access requirements.
DHCF designated CRISP DC to serve as the District’s HIE to provide core exchange services to the healthcare system across Washington, DC. The DC HIE is guided by the DC HIE Policy Board, an advisory body, appointed by the Mayor, that provides recommendations to DHCF.
Community Partners

The mission of the Department of Health Care Finance is to improve health outcomes by providing access to comprehensive, cost-effective and quality healthcare services for residents of the District of Columbia.
Board of Directors
Brendan Furlong, MD (Chair)
Vice President & Chief Medical Information Officer
MedStar Medical Group
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
CRISP DC Team
Stephanie Brown
Executive Director
