Beacon Community and EHR Vendor
Collaboration: A Catalyst for Interoperability
and Exchange
Interoperability Showcase, HIMSS
March 6, 2013 4:30-5pm
Affinity Group Purpose
• Promote the adoption, use and
interoperability of EHR technology to advance
the care improvement goals of impacted
communities
• Use cases for CCD exchange:
– Update clinical registry or repository
– Patient referral
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Affinity Group Participants
Beacon Communities
EHR Vendors
HIE Vendors
Bangor Beacon Community
Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest
Central Indiana Beacon Community
Colorado Beacon Consortium
Crescent City Beacon Community
Delta Blues Beacon Community
Greater Cincinnati Beacon Collaboration
Hawaii Beacon Community
Keystone Beacon Community
MyHealth Access Network (Tulsa)
Rhode Island Beacon Community
San Diego Beacon Community
Southeast Michigan Beacon Community
Southeastern Minnesota Beacon Community
Southern Piedmont Beacon Community (NC)
Utah Beacon Community/IC3
Western New York Beacon Community
Allscripts
Cerner
GE Healthcare
Greenway Medical
NextGen Healthcare
SuccessEHS
Vitera Healthcare Solution
Axolotl
Medicity
Orion Health
Covisint
InterSystems
Mirth
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Affinity Group Governance
• ONC Beacon-EHR Vendor Affinity Group CoChairs
• Executive Steering Committee
– 5 Beacon and 5 Vendor Representatives that guide
the work of the Affinity Group
– ONC Representative
– Technical Support – Booz Allen Hamilton
– Technical and Engagement Work Group co-chairs
report out to this group
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Full AG Accomplishments
*This document provides an overview of each of the Beacon-EHR Vendor Engagement &
Technical Work Group work products developed between January and December 2012
Engagement Workgroup (Co-Chair David
Smith & Dan Stoke)
Technical Workgroup (Co-Chairs David Groves
& Tone Southerland)
Chronic Illness Training Template
Beacon Technical Discovery Guide
Transitions of Care & Meaningful Use
Document
Beacon User Stories Version 1 & 2
• Update Clinical Data Repository and
Disease Registry
• Patient Referral
User Group Guidelines
Beacon Vendor C83 Data Element Analysis
Version 1
Vendor Evaluation Matrix/ROI Workbook
Work Product Descriptions/How to use guide
for the C83 Data Element Analysis sheet
Vendor Fair Guidelines
Glide path from HITSP C83 to CCDA –White
Paper
Post Live Playbook Versions 1 (Version #2 in
production)
Vendor Quality Measure Collection
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C83 Pilot Metrics
GRAND TOTAL (LIVE + PLANNED)
Beacon
Bangor
Cincinnati
Colorado
Crescent City
Inland Northwest
Keystone
Rhode Island
Southeast Michigan
Southeast Minnesota
Tulsa
Utah
Western New York
Grand Total (Live + Planned)
# of Practice
# of Patients
Locations # of Providers Impacted
2
23
16,096
3
8
4,200
1
6
4,500
8
81
81,036
19
139
3,590
14
43
76,000
9
54
64,888
9
22
2,824
29
231
184,300
121
1,330
1,126,200
2
13
36,000
1
5
1,402
218
1,955
1,601,036
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C83 Pilot Project Process
• Benefits of collaboration
• Positive impact for patients
• Moving towards Stage 2 Meaningful Use
– CCD Workflow
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Mapping Data Elements to MU2
Beacon C83 Data Elements
C-CDA Data Requirements
55 of the 66 Beacon C83 data
elements support MU2 data
requirements (83%)
21 of the 36 MU2 data
requirements are supported by the
Beacon C83 data elements (58%)
11 of the 66 Beacon C83 data
elements do not support MU2 data
requirements (17%)
15 of the 36 MU2 data
requirements are not supported by
the Beacon C83 data elements
(42%)
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Sample CCD Workflow
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Materials/Case Studies
• Recent White Paper: Glide Path from HITSP C83 to CCDA: Informed decision making for health information
stakeholders: http://www.healthit.gov/policyresearchers-implementers/reports
• Direct URL:
http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/glidepath_
hitsp_c83_to_ccda.pdf
• Vendors and Communities Working Together: A
Catalyst for Interoperability and Exchange:
http://www.healthit.gov/providersprofessionals/vendors-and-communities-workingtogether-catalyst-interoperability-and-excha
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Discussion
For more information on the Beacon Community Program, please contact
Christina.Markle@hhs.gov and download Beacon Community Fact Sheets at
http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/beaconcommunity-program