Relate the components of The HITECH Act and Meaningful Use to health management technology
Identify whether existing systems meet requirements
Communicate technology needs and request feedback from end users for a smooth transition
Implement best practices to move people and systems forward under these new requirements
Unblocking The Main Thread Solving ANRs and Frozen Frames
Aami hitech mu impact on the future on HC IT
1. HITECH and Meaningful Use:
The Impact on the Future of Healthcare Technology
Management
Amy Walker MS, RN, CPHQ, FACHE, NEA-BC
Practice Director Health IT +
Member HIMSS Public Policy Committee
2. • Relate the components of The HITECH Act and
Meaningful Use to health management technology
• Identify whether existing systems meet requirements
• Communicate technology needs and request
feedback from end users for a smooth transition
• Implement best practices to move people and
systems forward under these new requirements
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What We Will Cover…..
3. 3
Clinical Informatics
New Clinical Informatics Initiatives
Healthcare Operations
Information Technology
Communication
Communication
The Foundation
5. Leading from good to great does not mean coming
up with the answers and then motivating everyone
to follow your messianic vision. It means having the
humility to grasp the fact that you do not yet
understand enough to have all of the answers and
then to ask the questions that will lead to the best
possible insights.
(Jim Collins, Good to Great)
6. What This Presentation Is
Not About
The thoughtless application of IT, for slash and
burn downsizing, restructuring,
and outsourcing.
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7. 7
• President Bush’s goal in 2004
• Executive order established the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)
as part of the Dept of Health & Human Services (HHS)
– Dr. David Brailer appointed the first National Coordinator
A quick trip down memory lane …
“… an Electronic Health Record for
every American by the year 2014. By
computerizing health records, we can
avoid dangerous medical mistakes,
reduce costs, and improve care.”
- State of the Union address,
Jan. 20, 2004
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8. HITECH Act? hmm, sounds familiar…
• Signed into law February 2009
as part of ARRA
• Goal
– 90% of U.S. physicians and 70% of
hospitals using EHR by 2019
• How?
– Provide $19 Billion to doctors and
hospitals through DHS to
implement EHR by 2011
9. ARRA
• HITECH Care
• Care Coordination
• Disease Management
• Value-based Purchasing
• Bundled Payment
• Medical Home
• Comparativeness
Effectiveness
• Meaningful Use
• Public Reporting and
Accountability
• Reward Top Performers
• Penalize Bottom
Performers
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10. 10
ARRA EHR Adoption –Incentive Requirements
• To encourage broad adoption of EHRs, ARRA offers
reimbursement to eligible providers/hospitals who meet
two requirements:
– Acquire a certified EHR product or service
– Demonstrate that the organization or provider are using that
product/service “meaningfully”
• ARRA creates HIT Policy and HIT Standards Committees
which must recommend:
– Criteria for certifying EHR products
– Criteria for demonstrating that an applicant is using the EHR
meaningfully
11. Why are We Here?
• 2011
• 2013
• 2015
• Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health
disparities
• Engage patients and families in their health care
• Improve care coordination
• Improve population and public health
• All the while maintaining privacy and security
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HITECH Framework for MU of EHRs
Taken from: Blumenthal, D.
“Launching HITECH,” posted
by the NEJM on 12-30-2009.
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13. 13
MU Measures Quality Measures
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VTE - 1 VTE Prophylaxis within 24 hours of
arrival
Stroke - 2 Ischemic Stroke - Discharge on
Antithrombotics
VTE - 2 VTE Prophylaxis within 24 hours of
arrival to ICU
Stroke - 3 Ischemic Stroke - Anticoagulation for
A-Fib/Flutter
VTE -3 VTE Diagnosis - Anticoagulation
Overlap Therapy
Stroke - 4 Ischemic Stroke - Thrombolytic
therapy for patients arriving within 2
hours of symptom onset
VTE -4 VTE - Platelet Monitoring on
unfractionated Heparin
Stroke - 5 Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Stroke -
Antithrombotic therapy by day 2
VTE - 5 VTE - Discharge Instructions Stroke - 6 Ischemic Stroke - Discharge on
Statins
VTE - 6 VTE - Incidence of potentially
preventable VTE
Stroke - 8 Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Stroke –
Education
ED - 1 ED throughput-arrival to departure
for admitted patients
Stroke -
10
Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Stroke -
Rehabilitation Assessment
ED – 2 ED throughput - Admit decision time
to ED departure time for admitted
patients.
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HITECH Incentives for Hospitals – Medicare
Example
Four Year CMS Health IT Incentive Payment Scenarios:
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
2011 $20 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
2012 $15 $20 $0 $0 $0 $0
2013 $10 $15 $20 $0 $0 $0
2014 $5 $10 $15 $15 $0 $0
2015 $0 $5 $10 $10 $10 $0
2016 $0 $0 $5 $5 $5 $0
2017 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
$50 $50 $50 $30 $15
Maximum
Medicare
health IT
incentive
payment
for this
year is:
If the first qualifying year is:
Total of Maximum over 4, 3,
or 2 Years' Medicare Health
IT Incentive Payments
Example Numbers
(millions)
Penalties
begin
100% 100% 100% 60% 30%
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16. Current State for EMR Adoption in Home Health
• Over 80% use telemonitoring devices – from lo tech to hi tech
• EMR Technology Levels* (2007 survey data)
– 43% use EMR systems with following functionality
• Patient demographics 95%
• Point of care clinical documentation 29%
• Clinical notes 34%
• Clinical decision support 23%
• Record MD orders 50%
– 31% in process
Resnick, H.E., and Alwan, M. (2010). Use of health information technology in home health and
hospice agencies: United States, 2007. Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association 17(4):389-395.
17. oes It Mean?
• Increased reliance on IT
• Greater need for informatics professionals
• SWOT analysis should come sooner rather than later
• Suddenly, certifications matters more than ever
• More governance / new regulatory and
reimbursement guidelines
21. • Improve quality, cut costs
– Accountable Care Organizations
• Larger insurance footprint
• Not predetermined
• Focus on value
• Shift to outpatient care
• Data driven problem solving
• Refocus on fraud
• Growing information technology footprint
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Goals of Healthcare Reform
22. • Proposed CMO
ACO rules
published
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• Meaningful
Use Stage 2
• Advanced
Clinical
Process
• Medicare
Accountable
Care
Organizations
• Medicare Value-
based
Purchasing
• Reduced
Medicare
Payments for
Hospital
Readmissions
• Medicare
Bundle
Payment
Pilot
• ICD-10
Conversion
• Meaningful
Use Stage 3
Improved
Outcomes
• Health
Insurance
Exchanges
(electronic
eligibility)
• Reduced
Medicare
Payments for
Hospital
acquired
Infections
(HAI)
• Medicare
Expenditures
Capped
• Medicare
payment
adjustment
begins for
non
meaningful
users of IT
23. Accelerating Health Care Value
“Readiness for change is one of the hardest
problems we face”, Paul Tang, HIT Policy Committee vice chair and
Palo Alto Medical Foundation vice president and chief medical information officer.
“To realize our vision, we must foster a
pervasive culture of innovation”, Douglas D. French, former
Ascension Health president and chief executive officer.
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26. Meaningful Healthcare Reform A Journey
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Industrial Strength
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
• Complete an enterprise assessment of the
organizational readiness to reform
• Evaluate the present situation, identify
recommendations, and best practices to optimize the
future state
• Identify obstacles, challenges, sources of issues, and
needed changes
• Identify indicators of healthcare reform and
changes in order to maximize operational
performance
• Create and heavily emphasize an EFFECTIVE &
INNOVATIVE change management and
communication plan
• Create a practical benefits realization plan
27.
28. Certified EHR Technology
• Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology has approved two entities as
able to review and certify EHRs
– Certification Commission for Health Information
Technology (CCHIT)
– Drummond Group Inc.
• Unless your current system is homegrown, piecemeal
or older, your EHR vendor is likely already pursuing
certification
• (and/or trying to sell you a new or upgraded system – which they
promise will be certifiable)
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Aurora Health Care HITECH Gap Analysis
Look at each MU Criteria (and Gap) in 3 ways:
1. Technology – do you need software installed?
2. Adoption – do you have the required adoption?
3. Ability to Measure – can you measure?
Use these same categories in the
Work Plan for tracking
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33. Today’s Privacy and Security Environment
Covered Entities
Medical Homes
Medical Homes
Medical Homes
Pharmacy
Laboratories
Medical Log
Physician
Portal
Personal
Healthcare
Records
Medical Records
Clinical Image Records
Wellness Centers
Outpatient Care
Accountable Care
Organizations
Exercise Log
EMR
Social Worker
Emergency
Payer
Primary Care
Physician
Patient
34. Increase in HIPAA Penalties
Under the ARRA:
All such violations of an identical provision in a calendar year
(A) Did Not Know ............................................. $100 $50,000 $1,500,000
(B) Reasonable Cause ..................................... 1,000 50,000 1,500,000
(C) Willful Neglect—Corrected ........................ 10,000 50,000 1,500,000
(C) Willful Neglect—Not Corrected .................. 50,000 1,500,000
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35. A Sample of Questions for HIPAA-Security Assessment
• What is our single vulnerability from a technology or security
point of view?
• How vulnerable are we to attack on confidentiality, integrity,
and availability of our data and systems?
• What is the assessment of physical security controls at each
of our sites (data center, home office, field offices, and other
sites?
• How prepared are our incident response plans?
• Have we protected our company in contracts with vendors?
• Do we understand what PHI we produce, capture, store,
transport, and destroy?
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37. HITECH Drives US Standards Efforts
• Goal: Transform healthcare through the
meaningful use of health data
• Data capture data sharing advanced clinical
processes
Improved Outcomes
• Requires organized structuring and effective use
of information to support decision making
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38. Need for Health Data Standards
• Standards are foundational to development,
implementation and exchange of EHRs
• Clinicians need ubiquitous access to health
information to provide optimal care
• Providers, payers and public health entities must
exchange health information between
departments, across organizations and agencies
• Consumers need assurance that caregivers have
seamless access to correct information
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39. ONC Standards and Interoperability Framework
39
Tools and Services
(Use Case Development, Harmonization Tools, Vocabulary Browser, Value Set Repository, Testing Scripts, etc)
Tools and Services
(Use Case Development, Harmonization Tools, Vocabulary Browser, Value Set Repository, Testing Scripts, etc)
Use Case Development
and Functional
Requirements
Use Case Development
and Functional
Requirements
Standards
Development
Standards
Development
Certification
and Testing
Certification
and Testing
Harmonization of
Core Concepts
Harmonization of
Core Concepts
Implementation
Specifications
Implementation
Specifications
Pilot Demonstration
Projects
Pilot Demonstration
Projects
Reference
Implementation
Reference
Implementation
41. ICD-10 Compliance Impact
• International Classification of Disease 10th Revision
• federally mandated by October 1, 2013 for all providers
• more flexible code set expands for new procedures, diagnoses and
technologies
• greater specificity translates to improved quality measurements and patient
safety standards
• Impact to include:
• Coding Medical Records/Health Information Management
• Registration/Scheduling
• Encounter Forms/Charge Tickets
• Clinical Documentation
– Information Systems; including EHR’s
…the entire Revenue Cycle
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43. Home Health Today
3.3 million seniors receiving care on any given day – over 14 million
per year*
• Over 10,000 agencies – coverage in every state
• Approx 1 million clinicians; multidisciplinary
• Most provide specialty programs
– Diabetes, Congestive Failure, COPD, Stroke
– Patient centered, self management focus
• Many specialize in geriatrics
• Lowest cost/best outcomes in chronic care management for
elderly**
*Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (2011)
http://www.medpac.gov/documents/Mar11_EntireReport.pdf
44. Literature Shows
• Seniors do better at home for acute care on clinical
outcomes, costs, satisfaction
• Transitioning elders from acute to home with teaching for
self management and f/u more effective, low readmission
rates
• Use of telemonitoring in home for CHF and cardiac patients
w/PHR show optimal recovery and self management results.
45. Aging Demographics
• 7000 Baby Boomers turning 65 yrs every day
• 2011 Legislature targeting Medicare and
Medicaid cuts
• Current CMS spending and Baby-Boomer
impact vs. national fiscal goal of deficit
reductions
• HH positioned to provide highest quality and
best outcomes in care delivery for our elder
population
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46. Key Initiatives in ACA
(CBO est. 13.5b savings 2011-19 Sec 3021-3027)
• CMI – Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation – launched November, 2010
• Hospital at Home – for elderly
• Care Transition Program Pilot
• Readmissions Reduction Program
• Accountable Care Org/Bundling Pilots
47.
48. Clinical Engineering
The Clinical Engineering Department provides multiple services to ensure that
the medical equipment needs for patients and staff are met. We provide
services with accuracy and integrity.
– Provide installation, preventive maintenance
– Provide mandatory pre-use inspections
– Performs investigations
– Provides assistance in the disposal of medical equipment
– Provides for in-service training and support
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49. Perhaps Clinical Engineering Might Also Focus On
• Identifying improvement opportunities
• Participating in information technology and management
strategy
• Optimization in the use of devices
• Rounding to ensure feedback and evaluation of device
usage
• Expert resource in care coordination: technologies,
equipment and information flow
• Expert resource in equipment, process, and information
flow for meaningful use, and
• Expert resource for teams defining information technology
management
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50. It’s Not What We Don’t Know
That Hurts, It’s What We
Know That Ain’t So
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
51. Planning for Quality the Systems Thinker
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“Systems Thinking is a discipline for seeing
wholes, recognizing patterns and
interrelationships, and learning
how to structure those
interrelationships in more
effective, efficient ways.”
Senge, P., & Lannon-Kim, C., 1991
52. Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Absence of Trust
• Fear of Conflict
• Lack of Commitment
• Avoidance of Accountability
• Inattention to Results
• Identify the behaviors?
• How do you know that these have been
overcome? The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, San Francisco;
Jossey-Bass, 2002
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53. Lean Incorporated into Our Teams
• People first
• Flexibility
• Walking the Talk
• Our colleagues are assets
• Always provide value
• Mentor and coach
• Bridge organizational boundaries
• Adjustments made as work flow indicates
• Applies frontline feedback
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54. Listening Techniques
• Clarify-get more information
• Restate-check the meaning
• Remain neutral-convey interest
• Reflect-help them evaluate their feelings
• Summarize-bring the discussion into focus
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55. Are the skills, knowledge, and experience of the
actors well matched with the tasks they are
asked to perform?
55
56. It is only after I have read, identified, and
stimulated your needs that I will be able
to energize our discussions while
irresistibly presenting my ideas to you.
(Robert Mayer, How to Win Any Negotiation)
57. Power/Influence is the ability to get people to
perceive that a given behavior (or performance) is the
best action they can take in the service of their values.
58.
59. Care Providers
• At risk and accountable
• Will prepare for multiple reform outcomes
• Forge new partnerships
• Reliance on valid performance vs. faulty
• Increase in training
• Empowered to lead improvement
• Decrease in the size of the pie
• Increase in reliance in technology
• Driven by incentives and penalties
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60. It Is Not The Strongest Who Survive, Or The Fastest.
It Is The Ones Who Can Change the Quickest.
Charles Darwin
65. Accountable Care Organizations
A concept that has the potential to revolutionize
the way healthcare is delivered, experienced, and
paid for in America.
– Care coordination
– Patient centered using to the full extent all health
care professionals
– Respects patient centeredness by respecting patient
choice of provider and shared decision making
– Positive patient experience
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66. Medical Home
Six medical home standards
– Enhance access and continuity
– Identify and manage patient populations
– Plan and manage care
– Provide self-care and community support
– Track and coordinate care
– Measure and improve performance
•E-Visits
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67. Innovative Systems
67
The Vscan by GE, is a new
mobile device designed for
doctors who are making
house calls.
FutureScan 2011: Healthcare Trends and Implications 2011 - 2016
Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development / Health Administration Press January 2011
68. Innovative Systems
68
AirStrip Technologies, has built
its revolutionary AppPoint™
software development platform
with a vision of securely sending
critical patient information
directly from hospital monitoring
systems, bedside devices, and
electronic health records to a
clinician's mobile device.
69. Further Impact to Information Systems
• Zero tolerance for negative unintended consequences will be
identified and resolved
• Increased support to care coordination
• Increased certification criteria based on measurable
achievements
• Mathematical and logical models will become the norm to
support healthcare reform
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70. Perhaps Clinical Engineering Might Needs to Focus On
• Identifying improvement opportunities
• Participating in Information technology and management
strategy
• Optimization in the use of devices
• Rounding to ensure feedback and evaluation of device usage
• Expert resource in care coordination: technologies,
equipment and information flow
• Expert resource in equipment, process, and information flow
for meaningful use
70
71. Perhaps Clinical Engineering Might Needs to Focus On
• Identifying improvement opportunities
• Participating in Information technology and management
strategy
• Optimization in the use of devices
• Rounding to ensure feedback and evaluation of device usage
• Expert resource in care coordination: technologies,
equipment and information flow
• Expert resource in equipment, process, and information flow
for meaningful use
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72. Health IT Strategic Framework
72
Enterprise
Commitment
and
Accountability
Organizational
Readiness A
Pervasive
Culture
73. • Industrial strength leaders
• Industrial strength organizations
• Un-ending curiosity and fact finding
• Ability to project what-if scenarios
• Ability to simplify every process
• Ability to act lean
• Zero tolerance for waste
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Implement best practices to move people and systems
forward under these new requirements
74. Closing Thought…
74
We can build high performance teams that
together, determine and implement the
requirements for healthcare organizations that
operate as innovation engines, transforming
people, technology, and processes to advance
healthcare reform.
We realize it begins with us.
75. Thank you!
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Notas del editor
DIXIE
It is especially critical for the NI community to understand public health care policy. This will not happen by chance; carefully crafted strategy and collaboration needs to occur now! The 18 th chapter examined the critical pathways to public health care policy, public health policy, and NI policy and an analysis of the skills informaticists must possess in order to effectively communicate with policy makers and those in positions to sway policy makers. use this graphic to show the relationship between, policy, healthcare policy, nursing, and nursing informatics. In the GOAL circle we are going to identify the target nursing informaticians As nursing informaticist our unique skills are required to shape policy. We have an indisputable responsibility to advocate, engage stakeholders, lead and collaborate with others, including those outside the discipline of nursing, to develop and implement policy solutions. Ok our definitions the WHAT
Piece of cake, right?????
The US department of health and human services office of the national coordinator for health information technology (ONC) articulates a long term strategy that envisions the US Health System transforming into a Learning Health System. Health care innovation accelerates health care value. The IOM defines a learning health system as a system that is designed to generate an apply the best evidence for the collaborative health care choices of each patient and provider; to drive the process of new discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care. Innovation=value added solution. We have heard this over and over again- align people process, and technology and relationship-outcomes. These innovation engines drive quality, community, and value. Learning and transformation is constant. -Intermountain Health Care They succeeded because they leveraged a diverse skill set with new models of governance, and new models for integrating the skill sets into specific clinical programs. The people had the right information assets and supporting analytical applications. The key differentiator is that organizational infrastructures set up to support the improvement efforts.
It is especially critical for the NI community to understand public health care policy. This will not happen by chance; carefully crafted strategy and collaboration needs to occur now! The 18 th chapter examined the critical pathways to public health care policy, public health policy, and NI policy and an analysis of the skills informaticists must possess in order to effectively communicate with policy makers and those in positions to sway policy makers. use this graphic to show the relationship between, policy, healthcare policy, nursing, and nursing informatics. In the GOAL circle we are going to identify the target nursing informaticians As nursing informaticist our unique skills are required to shape policy. We have an indisputable responsibility to advocate, engage stakeholders, lead and collaborate with others, including those outside the discipline of nursing, to develop and implement policy solutions. Ok our definitions the WHAT
Breach notification requirements for all holders of PHI: Covered entities and their Bas overseen by HHS Non-covered entities overseen by FTC All entities with PHI use the HHS guidance issued on April 17 Failure to follow the HHS guidance on “rendering PHI unreadable< unusable and indecipherable” triggers obligation to notify individuals using various means of media publicity depending on how many individual records breached. Breaches affecting more than 500 indivduals will be posted to the HHS website. Security related provisions in existence prior to and found in HITECH now apply to Business Associates (Bas) Certain entities now must execute BA contracts: HIEs, RHIOs, E RX gateways must have BA agreements with any Ces These entities nor fall under the HIPAA Security Rule Violation penalties teired based on reasonalbe diligence/reasonable cause/willful neglect factors Take home message: Increased and Broadened emphasis on Securing Access to Health Data. Genetic Test Information Added to HIPAA Protecetd Data Increased focus on identity management for consumers broadens and deepens public awarenesss of need for IDM
About the ICD-10 Transition on October 1, 2013 ICD-10 codes must be used on all HIPAA transactions, including outpatient claims with dates of service, and inpatient claims with dates of discharge on and after October 1, 2013. Otherwise, your claims and other transactions may be rejected, and you will need to resubmit them with the ICD-10 codes. This could result in delays and may impact your reimbursements, so it is important to start now to prepare for the changeover to ICD-10 codes. This change does not affect CPT coding for outpatient procedures.
In the Future scan survey respondents reported that an intended consequence of clinical guidelines is that the art of doctoring is dimished in favor of formulaic tasks that are easily codified and performed by nonphysician clinicians,. In 2016 mott primary care will be provided by nonphysicioan clinicians 17 % Very Likely 49 % Somewhat Likely 30% Somewhat Unlikely 5 % Very Unlikely Data will be made available to all physicians that will compare each against others in his or her specialty nationally and locally relative to costs, outcomes, complication rates, antibiotic usage, and device usage.
Refocus on and convergence toward “unified” identity Management
It is especially critical for the NI community to understand public health care policy. This will not happen by chance; carefully crafted strategy and collaboration needs to occur now! The 18 th chapter examined the critical pathways to public health care policy, public health policy, and NI policy and an analysis of the skills informaticists must possess in order to effectively communicate with policy makers and those in positions to sway policy makers. use this graphic to show the relationship between, policy, healthcare policy, nursing, and nursing informatics. In the GOAL circle we are going to identify the target nursing informaticians As nursing informaticist our unique skills are required to shape policy. We have an indisputable responsibility to advocate, engage stakeholders, lead and collaborate with others, including those outside the discipline of nursing, to develop and implement policy solutions. Ok our definitions the WHAT
The futurescan national survey solicited the opinions of 1,600 CEO members of the American College of Health care executives and almost 2,000 provider-based members of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development with the title of director or higher as to the likelihood of various trends occurring in their own hospitals or their hospital area by 2016. A total of 985 responses were received. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are organizational structures within which hospitals, physicians, and others can work together to provide more cost-effective care and be held accountable for the results achieved. How likely is it that your hospital will participate in an ACO in 2016? 46 very likely 41 somewhat likely 27 somewhat unlikely 3 very unlikely
By 2016, hospitals will use remote home patient monitoring to track patient recuperation from hospitalizations and to intervene early in order to reduce unnecessary readmissions. The overall structure of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) 2011 draft standard is very similar to PPC-PCMH but more compact while maintaining alignment with the key components of primary care. The revised version has six standards instead of 9. The 6 PCMH 1022 draft standards are: 1: Access and Continuity 2: Identify and Manage Patient Populations 3: Plan and Manage Care 4: Self- Management Support 5: Track and Coordinate Care 6: Performance Measurement and Quality Improvement http://www.ncqa.org/Portals/0/PublicComment/PCMH2011_draft_standards_527.pdf NCQA intends to embed requirements aligned with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Measures of Meaningful Use within the PCMH 1022 requirements once they are announced. E-Visits
AppPoint was also designed to solve core challenges in mobile software development, such as developing native applications that provide the requirements of a rich user experience while at the same time being able to scale and adapt to an ever changing world of mobile operating systems and devices. FDA cleared and HIPAA compliant, AirStrip applications are powered over wired and wireless networks, delivering virtual real-time waveform and other relevant clinical data - anytime, anywhere.
Today IT spending amounts to 3.5 percent of the total operating budget in the average hospital. By 2016, this percentage will double. 47% Very Likely, 44 percent somewhat likely, 17 % somewhat unlikely, 5 % very unlikely. By 2016, your hospital will not longer use paper charts to deliver and manage patient care. 56% very likely 32 somewhat likely By 2016 your hospital will have received(or be on track to receive) its full share of federal stimulus funding as a result of complying with federal “meaningful use” requirements. By 2016, all of your hospital’s patients will have access to their electronic health information, which they can export to various websites that will help them make more informed decisions about their care. 39% very likely 44 % somewhat unlikely
The US department of health and human services office of the national coordinator for health information technology (ONC) articulates a long term strategy that envisions the US Health System transforming into a Learning Health System. Health care innovation accelerates health care value. The IOM defines a learning health system as a system that is designed to generate an apply the best evidence for the collaborative health care choices of each patient and provider; to drive the process of new discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care. Innovation=value added solution. We have heard this over and over again- align people process, and technology and relationship-outcomes. These innovation engines drive quality, community, and value. Learning and transformation is constant. -Intermountain Health Care They succeeded because they leveraged a diverse skill set with new models of governance, and new models for integrating the skill sets into specific clinical programs. The people had the right information assets and supporting analytical applications. The key differentiator is that organizational infrastructures set up to support the improvement efforts.