Your Trusted Advisor for EHR Meaningful Use and HIT

HomeTown Health Health IT WorkshopSeptember 25, 2014

Carmen L. HughesExecutive Director, GA-HITEC

3,955 EP’sand

56 CAH/RH

DCHONC

Healthcare Systems

Statewide Tech

PartnershipsCommunity and

Professional PartnershipsGHIN

GA-HITEC Supports Georgia Providers & Hospitals

•MU Stages 1-3•Barrier Mitigation via value-added services

EHR Implementation Resource & Support

•Boots on the Ground•Distance Learning•Web- based training

Outreach, Education & Training

•Lab Interface•HIE outreach and education•Service Area HIE – Ga Health Connect

HIT Infrastructure

•PCMH, PQRS, Privacy & Security Risk Assessment

•Practice Management Workflow Design• Improve clinical outcomes

Practice Management

•EHR adoption•Vendor utilization

Research

HIT Center

EMR Implementation

Resource & Support

Cloud-based Technical Solutions

Practice Management

Outreach, Education &

Training

Evolution of GA-HITEC Services

Partnering to Provide Value-Added HIT Services

Partnership for CAH/RH Support

• EHR Incentive Program Attestation Support

• Education & Training• GA-HITEC Online Training Center

59 online courses 5 certifications

• e-Newsletter

• Informational e-mail “Tipsheet”

• CIO Advisory/Roundtable

• Health IT Workshop UPDATE: Additional MU Attestation support offered to Eligible Providers

Meaningful Use Progress: CAH/RH

100% 82% 82%

Projecting 4 Hospitals to achieve MU by Dec 2014:

Warm Springs Medical Center Candler County Hospital Habersham Medical Center Dorminy Medical Center

September 30, 2014: End of 2014 fiscal year and end of the 2014 reporting period for eligible hospitals

November 30, 2014 at 11:59 pm ET: Attestation deadline for Medicare eligible hospitals for the 2014 program year

Meaningful Use Progress: EP’s

Only 400 EP’s to GO

Nationally!

Service Area Health Information Exchange

Sustainable PartnershipsLiaison Technologies is a global integration and data management company. Liaison has more than 350 employees worldwide and has offices in five states - GA, CA, WA, OR, and IL. Corporate headquarters is in Alpharetta, Georgia. Outside US, Liaison has offices in Finland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Sweden.

We are the world’s leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services that patients and doctors need to make better healthcare decisions. Our services range from routine blood tests — such as total cholesterol, Pap testing and white blood cell count — to complex, gene-based and molecular testing.

GAHTEC is the ONC designated Regional Extension Center for the state of Georgia. GAHITEC provides technical support to over 4000 providers and 56 critical access and rural hospitals to meet meaningful use. Also serves as the Georgia CMS/DCH REC program for specialist; currently working with CHOA, Georgia CSBs, and community providers.

GAHITEC / GaHC Customer Service

Center

Liaison Technical Support

• Meaningful Use Education and training• Connection to DCH clinical quality

initiatives• Membership management• Medicaid & Medicare Attestation and

updates• PCMH consultation• Practice Management Services• Other provider Services

GA-DCH

Georgia Health Connect SAHIE

Providers and Hospitals• Small independent practices• Small independent hospitals• Rural communities• Underserved communities• Greater community of need

Healthcare Data Management PlatformTurning Data into Actionable Information

Physicians

Patients

PayersHealth Information Exchanges Accountable Care

Organizations

Other Third Parties

Ambulatory Practices

Clean, well-defined, well-orchestrated flow of information to best-of-breed analytics engine

Performing the function of CONNECTING, INTEGRATING,

AGGREGATING and HARMONIZING

health data

Membership services to providers and hospitals How do we provide comprehensive support to providers? This includes

MU advisory , practice management, ICD-10, Privacy and Security, disease management and other clinical quality tools?

HIE technical services to small practices and hospitalsWhat does joining the network mean to a medical practice related to

interoperability and MU?

Georgia Health Connect

Georgia Health Connect Advantages

Exchange of Health Data

•Interoperability with GAHIN•Lab orders and results•Clinical Record (CCD)•Claims Data•Medication Reconciliation•Transitions of Care

Helping independent practices•Neutrality, Flexibility, Agility•Secure Exchange of Information• Decrease Cost for Sustainability•Aggregating the Data •Coordination of Care•Improve Quality of Care

Georgia Health Connect OfferingsFeature Description

Patient Data Repository &Longitudinal Patient Clinical Viewer

Liaison Health Data Management™ Platform (HDM) and a web application to view the aggregated patient clinical data. The web application will be added to Provider Portal.

Provider Portal and Quality Reporting (PQRS/BTE)

CECity MedConcert® Portal with integration of data from Liaison HDM

Direct Messaging Service Direct Messaging will be implemented by GaHIN via Medicity. For EHRs that support Direct, providers will use their EHRs for sending and receiving messages with other GaHIN members. If the EHRs do not support Direct, then a web application will be provided by GaHIN and we will provide a hyperlink to that application from CECity MedConcert® Portal. Single sign on is not supported by that web application so we will just provide a hyperlink.

Integration with GaHIN Data is made available to the GaHIN via integration between Liaison HDM and GaHIN via Truven using IHE PIX and XDS.b profiles as defined by GaHIN specification.

Practice/Clinic/hospitals Connectivity CCDA and/or Claims integration

Connectivity between Liaison HDM and Clinics/Practices/hospitals with integration for access to CCDA documents. ** (May require vendor interface – extra fees not included)

Electronic Lab and Radiology Orders and Results

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Medication Reconciliation Dr. First medication reconciliation

Other GaHIN-Provided Services Additional services that are offered by GaHIN, such as connectivity to Georgia Registry of Immunization Transactions and Services (GRITS), National eHealth Exchange, Syndromic surveillance reporting will be added as available.G

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Georgia Health Connect Architecture

Provider Portal

Medication Reconciliation

Lab Orders/Results **(Extra fees may apply)

SSO Longitudinal Patient Clinical Viewer

Quality Reporting & Improvement – PQRS & BTE

Liaison Health Data Management Platform

GAHIN Practices & Hospitals

HL7 CCDA

XDS.b & PIX sync

Immunizations / Public Health

Reporting

Radiology Orders/Results

Liaison Integration Platform

Immunizations / Public Health Reporting

Personal Health Record

Direct Messaging

Foundational Solution (Georgia Health Connect Collaboration)

Secondary Options (Georgia Health Connect Collaboration PLUS)

Your Trusted Advisor for EHR Meaningful Use and

HITwww.ga-hitec.org(877) 658-1990

Additional Resources:

www.cms.gov

www.healthit.gov