Got Meaningful Use?
Implementing Programs & Policies To
Achieve Widespread Use of Health
Information Technology
gy
Yael
Y l Harris,
H i PhD,
PhD MHS
Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology (ONC)
EHRs
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Got
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Meaningful What?
• Key features
specified in ARRA
• Health IT policy
committee
• Public rule making
process
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Key Components of Meaningful Use
• Patient & Familyy
Engagement
• Coordinated Care
• Quality, Safety & Efficiency
• Privacy & Security
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• IImproved
d Public
P bli &
Population Health
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Key
y Features of Proposed
p
2011 Definition
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Clinical
Cli
i ld
documentation
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Provider order entry
Quality measures
E-prescribing
Incorporation of test
results into EHR
• Medication reconciliation
• Drug interaction checks
• Patient access to their
information
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Process to Achieve Meaningful Use
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Regional
Centers
Regional Extension
Extension Centers
• 60 Centers covering 98%
of U.S. providers
• Focus on small, primary
care practices and critical
access hospitals
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Supportt 100,000
100 000 providers
id
to achieve meaningful use
• Provide direct,
individualized onsite
individualized,
technical assistance
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State Health Information Exchange Program
Facilitate secure,
electronic
l t
i
movement and use
of health information
Federal & state
collaboration to
achieve
interoperability
Statewide Policy
Policy,
Governance,
Technical
Infrastructure and
Business Practices
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Health IT Workforce Development
• $84M to support training
i i off 50
50,000+
000 new h
health
l h IT professionals
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Community
Colleges
University Based
Training Programs
Curriculum
Development
Competency Exam
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Beacon Communities
Vision
Guide the way to a transformed health care
system through demonstration communities
showing how health IT-enabled quality and cost
i
improvements
t are achievable,
hi
bl sustainable,
t i bl and
d
replicable all across the country.
Goals:
• Use health IT to bring together core health care
stakeholders at the community level
• Show how health IT can support breakthrough
advancements in health care quality, efficiency,
and in population health
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Beacon Communities
Beacon Communities
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Thanks!
Yael.harris@hhs.gov
h lthit hh
healthit.hhs.gov
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