HIMSS 2010 Demonstrations
A Path to Improved Care: Communities CONNECTing to the NHIN
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Demonstration overviews and presenters are listed below. Check back soon to download the presentations.
Demonstration overviews and presenters are listed below. Check back soon to download the presentations.
Supporting Midwestern Grandparents on Vacation
Redwood MedNet, HealthBridge, and Thayer County Health Services
HealthBridge, a large urban HIE in Cincinnati, Thayer County Health Services, a community HIE in southeast Nebraska, and Redwood MedNet, a rural HIE in California, will demonstrate how the CONNECT toolkit enables the use of health data as farming community grandparents from Nebraska travel across the country visiting their urban daughter in Cincinnati and grandsons in California. As they visit the different HIEs, the three HIEs exchange electronic medication and diagnostic health data, thereby improving the quality, safety and efficiency of their care.
HealthBridge, a large urban HIE in Cincinnati, Thayer County Health Services, a community HIE in southeast Nebraska, and Redwood MedNet, a rural HIE in California, will demonstrate how the CONNECT toolkit enables the use of health data as farming community grandparents from Nebraska travel across the country visiting their urban daughter in Cincinnati and grandsons in California. As they visit the different HIEs, the three HIEs exchange electronic medication and diagnostic health data, thereby improving the quality, safety and efficiency of their care.
Simplifying Medicaid Administration through Collaboration
Community Health Information Collaborative (CHIC), Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) System, and Medicaid Provider Portal
This demonstration of MITA and CONNECT collaboration will illustrate the interaction between Medicaid providers and a states’ MITA-based Medicaid system to support the workflow associated with verifying a member’s eligibility. This demonstration illustrates how NHIN services are applied to existing, industry-standard interfaces and aligned with the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture.
This demonstration of MITA and CONNECT collaboration will illustrate the interaction between Medicaid providers and a states’ MITA-based Medicaid system to support the workflow associated with verifying a member’s eligibility. This demonstration illustrates how NHIN services are applied to existing, industry-standard interfaces and aligned with the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture.
Improving Adverse Event Reporting
Food and Drug Administration, Safety Reporting from EHR, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
In this demonstration, adverse events related to human medical products are captured at the point of care within electronic health record systems and reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directly via built-in reporting capability in electronic health record systems. This automated adverse event reporting capability has the potential to ease the burden of reporting for healthcare providers and provide timely, high quality information required by the FDA and the biopharmaceutical industry.
In this demonstration, adverse events related to human medical products are captured at the point of care within electronic health record systems and reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directly via built-in reporting capability in electronic health record systems. This automated adverse event reporting capability has the potential to ease the burden of reporting for healthcare providers and provide timely, high quality information required by the FDA and the biopharmaceutical industry.
Transforming Worker Experiences in NYC
New York City
This demonstration will highlight Worker Connect, a Web-based system developed by New York’s HHS-Connect that links data across five agencies and seven programs and is used by 11 agencies across 6,000 users so that caseworkers are able to share client information without compromising confidentiality. Clients’ personal and case information is included in a virtual integrated case file which can be viewed by case workers in a secure way to provide the appropriate services to clients.
This demonstration will highlight Worker Connect, a Web-based system developed by New York’s HHS-Connect that links data across five agencies and seven programs and is used by 11 agencies across 6,000 users so that caseworkers are able to share client information without compromising confidentiality. Clients’ personal and case information is included in a virtual integrated case file which can be viewed by case workers in a secure way to provide the appropriate services to clients.
Applying Reusable Technology for HIE
The States of Oregon, Illinois, Utah and Minnesota
During this demonstration, participants will learn about the Strategy for Applying Reusable Technology (START) vision, a game-changing approach to building and deploying re-usable code/systems in government. This partnership between Utah, Illinois, Oregon, the federal government and a number of other key stakeholders serves to demonstrate a high quality, cost-effective approach to modernizing enterprise systems in the future and building the foundation for a “secure government cloud computing platform” to serve the citizens in the digital age we live in.
During this demonstration, participants will learn about the Strategy for Applying Reusable Technology (START) vision, a game-changing approach to building and deploying re-usable code/systems in government. This partnership between Utah, Illinois, Oregon, the federal government and a number of other key stakeholders serves to demonstrate a high quality, cost-effective approach to modernizing enterprise systems in the future and building the foundation for a “secure government cloud computing platform” to serve the citizens in the digital age we live in.
Analyzing Data for Public Health and Quality Measures
Primary Care Information Project, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Population CCR (popCCR) is an open source solution developed for the Primary Care Information Project within the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. This demonstration will illustrate popCCR’s ability to express prospective, real-time, or retrospective decision support to be run against per-patient or aggregate clinical and administrative data sets. popCCR allows rapid, real-time expression of complex rules and cohorts which can be run against any system that can generate a CCR, CCD, HL7 2.x, NCPDP, X12, or any other parsable flat file format. In the demo, popCCR will validate compliance with criteria for quality measures, guidelines and protocols, and it can automate public health, regulatory and syndrome surveillance reporting.
Population CCR (popCCR) is an open source solution developed for the Primary Care Information Project within the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. This demonstration will illustrate popCCR’s ability to express prospective, real-time, or retrospective decision support to be run against per-patient or aggregate clinical and administrative data sets. popCCR allows rapid, real-time expression of complex rules and cohorts which can be run against any system that can generate a CCR, CCD, HL7 2.x, NCPDP, X12, or any other parsable flat file format. In the demo, popCCR will validate compliance with criteria for quality measures, guidelines and protocols, and it can automate public health, regulatory and syndrome surveillance reporting.
Linking Health and Human Services
TRANSFORM, Federal Health Architecture
Learn more about the work underway that brings together federal, state, local and private communities to electronically link health and human services by improving business processes, information sharing and interoperability. This demonstration will highlight the business challenges being advanced and the approach to create shared solutions that improve services to citizens and create operational efficiencies.
Learn more about the work underway that brings together federal, state, local and private communities to electronically link health and human services by improving business processes, information sharing and interoperability. This demonstration will highlight the business challenges being advanced and the approach to create shared solutions that improve services to citizens and create operational efficiencies.
Solving the Paper Record Problem
TRANSFORM, Federal Health Architecture
Even if all healthcare providers were to adopt electronic health records today, paper records exist with historical information that needs to be shared for many years. This demonstration will illustrate how federal, state and private organizations are working together to develop a solution which will allow paper and non-standard data records to be exchanged across the NHIN.
Even if all healthcare providers were to adopt electronic health records today, paper records exist with historical information that needs to be shared for many years. This demonstration will illustrate how federal, state and private organizations are working together to develop a solution which will allow paper and non-standard data records to be exchanged across the NHIN.
Open-Source Population Health Reporting Tool
popHealth
This demonstration will provide an overview of popHealth, an open-source software prototype that extracts data from a provider’s EHR (initially using the HITSP C32 data standard), and uses predefined or user defined reports for individual quality measures to provide physicians with a better understanding of the overall health of their patient population based on the reporting metrics. popHealth streamlines transmission of data on summary quality measures from individual providers to federal agencies. Summary quality information may be transmitted through the CONNECT solution to federal agencies.
This demonstration will provide an overview of popHealth, an open-source software prototype that extracts data from a provider’s EHR (initially using the HITSP C32 data standard), and uses predefined or user defined reports for individual quality measures to provide physicians with a better understanding of the overall health of their patient population based on the reporting metrics. popHealth streamlines transmission of data on summary quality measures from individual providers to federal agencies. Summary quality information may be transmitted through the CONNECT solution to federal agencies.
Coordinating Care Across California
East Kern County Integrated Technology Association, Long Beach Network for Health, and Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange
Care coordination represents one of the most promising ways to increase patient safety, improve outcomes and avoid unnecessary procedures. This demo shows how an emergency department physician can evaluate information from different care episodes in far-flung communities across California while addressing an emergent health situation. HIE enables choice of the proper treatment, avoiding a dangerous invasive test, because a more complete knowledge of the patient was available.
Care coordination represents one of the most promising ways to increase patient safety, improve outcomes and avoid unnecessary procedures. This demo shows how an emergency department physician can evaluate information from different care episodes in far-flung communities across California while addressing an emergent health situation. HIE enables choice of the proper treatment, avoiding a dangerous invasive test, because a more complete knowledge of the patient was available.
Delivering E-Care and EHR Interoperability
Federal Communications Commission, and University of Virginia
This demonstration will follow a veteran from Charlottesville with high blood pressure who develops signs and symptoms of a stroke while traveling in rural Virginia. The demo outlines his coordinated care experience from the community hospital, to the University of Virginia Hospital and finally to his home.
This demonstration will follow a veteran from Charlottesville with high blood pressure who develops signs and symptoms of a stroke while traveling in rural Virginia. The demo outlines his coordinated care experience from the community hospital, to the University of Virginia Hospital and finally to his home.
Enhancing Value in Health Care through Health Information Exchange
Mayo Clinic, HealthPartners, Minnesota HIE
This demonstration will illustrate how health information exchange from HealthPartners to Mayo Clinic through the Minnesota Health Information Exchange using CONNECT can add value by enabling the exchange of continuity of care documents for a patient with a complex medical problem. The information in this demonstration is a prototype, but based upon true-to-life cases.
This demonstration will illustrate how health information exchange from HealthPartners to Mayo Clinic through the Minnesota Health Information Exchange using CONNECT can add value by enabling the exchange of continuity of care documents for a patient with a complex medical problem. The information in this demonstration is a prototype, but based upon true-to-life cases.
Processing Claims with Authorized Release of Information
Social Security Administration, and MedVirginia
The demonstration will show how the Social Security Administration requests information from a medical provider (MedVirginia) based on authorization to release information and receives the information using the NHIN. The information flow is seamless and does not require any human intervention. This exchange of information dramatically reduces the time required for the exchange compared to the traditional paper process.
The demonstration will show how the Social Security Administration requests information from a medical provider (MedVirginia) based on authorization to release information and receives the information using the NHIN. The information flow is seamless and does not require any human intervention. This exchange of information dramatically reduces the time required for the exchange compared to the traditional paper process.
Releasing Authorized PHR Information Over the NHIN
Social Security Administration, and Personal Health Record
The demonstration will show how the Social Security Administration can potentially interact with a PHR using the same technology that it uses to request and receive information from a provider. The information obtained through this interaction can reduce the stress on the claimants by automatically populating the information into the disability application rather than having them fill the information out manually. The demonstration is a technical proof of concept which tries to identify the policy and technical issues to make this interaction work in a production setting.
The demonstration will show how the Social Security Administration can potentially interact with a PHR using the same technology that it uses to request and receive information from a provider. The information obtained through this interaction can reduce the stress on the claimants by automatically populating the information into the disability application rather than having them fill the information out manually. The demonstration is a technical proof of concept which tries to identify the policy and technical issues to make this interaction work in a production setting.
Enhancing Tribal Care Coordination
Indian Health Service
This demonstration showcases cross-agency, cross-region and cross-facility health information retrieval from across the IHS enterprise-wide health information exchange utilizing the NHIN. The demo will show a provider retrieving C32 documents by logging on to the Universal Client and navigating through the workflow to search for the patient, obtain patient document links, and finally, retrieve the documents.
This demonstration showcases cross-agency, cross-region and cross-facility health information retrieval from across the IHS enterprise-wide health information exchange utilizing the NHIN. The demo will show a provider retrieving C32 documents by logging on to the Universal Client and navigating through the workflow to search for the patient, obtain patient document links, and finally, retrieve the documents.
Delivering HIE Through Medical Grade Networks
Wels Hospital
The session will illustrate how Wels Hospital is utilizing a standards-based architecture to deliver medical data securely and cost-effectively over its network. It will explain how Wels Hospital is addressing its need to exchange data between disparate systems and align with national and European data exchange initiatives. It will also describe how Wels Hospital will participate in the ePSOS project, the European initiative similar to the NHIN.
The session will illustrate how Wels Hospital is utilizing a standards-based architecture to deliver medical data securely and cost-effectively over its network. It will explain how Wels Hospital is addressing its need to exchange data between disparate systems and align with national and European data exchange initiatives. It will also describe how Wels Hospital will participate in the ePSOS project, the European initiative similar to the NHIN.
Enhancing Wounded Warrior Care
Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Kaiser Permanente
Using fictional, but true-to-life medical encounters and real-time NHIN information exchanges, this demonstration will illustrate how the data exchange through the NHIN can support continuity of care for the wounded warrior patient population.
Exchanging Medical Records During Disasters
National Disaster Medical System, Department of Health and Human Services
This demonstration will highlight a hurricane scenario in which patients in high risk areas are evacuated to remote locations. This scenario will record the initial patient encounter at the high risk location and illustrate the ability for medical teams to access the patient’s record once relocated to an evacuation site.
This demonstration will highlight a hurricane scenario in which patients in high risk areas are evacuated to remote locations. This scenario will record the initial patient encounter at the high risk location and illustrate the ability for medical teams to access the patient’s record once relocated to an evacuation site.
Protecting Soldiers Using Health Information
Military Health System’s MiCare Portal
The U.S. Army enables soldiers and their families to manage their electronic personal health records worldwide online. This demonstration will highlight the Military Health Systems’ (MHS) MiCare patient portal that allows military beneficiaries to export and share their personal health information online and take best advantage of the expanding ecosystem of PHR applications for personalized patient decision support.
The U.S. Army enables soldiers and their families to manage their electronic personal health records worldwide online. This demonstration will highlight the Military Health Systems’ (MHS) MiCare patient portal that allows military beneficiaries to export and share their personal health information online and take best advantage of the expanding ecosystem of PHR applications for personalized patient decision support.
Engaging Patients in Their Care
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System will demonstrate a model for providing private-sector physicians access to federal health summary information when caring for military personnel. The demonstration includes the ability for the patient to participate directly in the health information sharing through a connected personal health record.
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System will demonstrate a model for providing private-sector physicians access to federal health summary information when caring for military personnel. The demonstration includes the ability for the patient to participate directly in the health information sharing through a connected personal health record.
Enabling PHRs with Wireless Technology
Meridian Health
As a premier provider of hospitals in New Jersey, Meridian Health delivers a broad continuum of care through its five hospitals. This demonstration will highlight how wireless technology such as a remote patient monitoring system can enable personal health records (PHRs) to aid in the care of the more than 250,000 people who visit Meridian Health’s hospitals in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
As a premier provider of hospitals in New Jersey, Meridian Health delivers a broad continuum of care through its five hospitals. This demonstration will highlight how wireless technology such as a remote patient monitoring system can enable personal health records (PHRs) to aid in the care of the more than 250,000 people who visit Meridian Health’s hospitals in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Empowering Consumers with Family Health Data
Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait”
This demonstration will showcase how the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait” Web tool helps consumers easily gather their family health histories, and then assembles this information in a structured format. The solution enables families to work together in gathering histories; helps providers obtain better family history information; provides data in formats that can be saved in interoperable form in EHRs/PHRs; and enables the consumer to obtain automated, personalized health information from Web-based services. The demonstration will use Mayo Clinic Health Manager to showcase interoperability.
This demonstration will showcase how the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait” Web tool helps consumers easily gather their family health histories, and then assembles this information in a structured format. The solution enables families to work together in gathering histories; helps providers obtain better family history information; provides data in formats that can be saved in interoperable form in EHRs/PHRs; and enables the consumer to obtain automated, personalized health information from Web-based services. The demonstration will use Mayo Clinic Health Manager to showcase interoperability.
Improving Public Health Cancer Registry Reporting
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In this demonstration, a state cancer registry receives complete health data on patients diagnosed with cancer in their state jurisdiction. The state cancer registry compiles and consolidates this information into a complete record of the cancer case in a standardized format with patient identifiers removed. Using CONNECT, the cancer registry transmits electronic data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After the data are received from all state cancer registries from across the United States, the CDC processes the data and produces official federal statistics on cancer incidence and cancer mortality for the nation. These de-identified data are also made available for use by researchers.
In this demonstration, a state cancer registry receives complete health data on patients diagnosed with cancer in their state jurisdiction. The state cancer registry compiles and consolidates this information into a complete record of the cancer case in a standardized format with patient identifiers removed. Using CONNECT, the cancer registry transmits electronic data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After the data are received from all state cancer registries from across the United States, the CDC processes the data and produces official federal statistics on cancer incidence and cancer mortality for the nation. These de-identified data are also made available for use by researchers.
Tracking Public Health Outbreaks
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Indiana Department of Health, and Washington Department of Health
This demonstration will follow a fictional character who visits a physician where he is diagnosed with Influenza A. The physician sends the nasal swab to the state lab for identification of H1N1. Local and state public health epidemiologists query the clinical documents submitted by the physician office and lab, and an epidemiologist at the State Public Health Department is able to look at displays of current Influenza data from the HIE (gathered by regular polling of lab documents). Data from the state public health agency is aggregated into the GIPSE format and transmitted to the CDC.
This demonstration will follow a fictional character who visits a physician where he is diagnosed with Influenza A. The physician sends the nasal swab to the state lab for identification of H1N1. Local and state public health epidemiologists query the clinical documents submitted by the physician office and lab, and an epidemiologist at the State Public Health Department is able to look at displays of current Influenza data from the HIE (gathered by regular polling of lab documents). Data from the state public health agency is aggregated into the GIPSE format and transmitted to the CDC.
Facilitating International Disease Tracking
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This demonstration highlights possible international disease surveillance and standardization efforts for international aggregate case information sharing. An international physician diagnoses a patient with Influenza A within their EHR and uses a situational awareness (SA) solution to visualize real-time Influenza cases voluntarily reported by other SA solution contributing providers. A case management system receives new Influenza cases from across a region outside of the United States and is used by public health epidemiologists to review individual cases, aggregate outbreaks for analysis, and create a public response to the increasing severity of Influenza illness. Nightly aggregates of case reports are formatted using the GIPSE format and shared with U.S. state public health officials also monitoring Influenza illness severity. Data collected by the state is then shared with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a more comprehensive national response.
This demonstration highlights possible international disease surveillance and standardization efforts for international aggregate case information sharing. An international physician diagnoses a patient with Influenza A within their EHR and uses a situational awareness (SA) solution to visualize real-time Influenza cases voluntarily reported by other SA solution contributing providers. A case management system receives new Influenza cases from across a region outside of the United States and is used by public health epidemiologists to review individual cases, aggregate outbreaks for analysis, and create a public response to the increasing severity of Influenza illness. Nightly aggregates of case reports are formatted using the GIPSE format and shared with U.S. state public health officials also monitoring Influenza illness severity. Data collected by the state is then shared with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a more comprehensive national response.