Promoting HIT Adoption in the HRSA Community Success Through Collaboration

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Promoting HIT Adoption in the HRSA Community
Success Through Collaboration

• Mary P. Griskewicz, MS, FHIMSS
• Senior Director of Ambulatory Information Systems
  
• November 5 -7, 2007

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HIMSS Strategic Direction

• Vision
• Advancing the best use of information and mgt
  systems for the betterment of health care.
•  
• Mission
• To lead change in the healthcare information and
  management systems field through knowledge
  sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and
  community affiliations.

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Society Today

• 20,000 Individual Members of which 73 work in
  the field (non-vendors, non-consultants)
• 350 Corporate Members
• 90 committees, task forces, work groups
• 47 Chapters
• Top 5 largest healthcare conference in US
• Top 50 largest conference of any kind in US
• 40 million annual budget

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Ambulatory Information Systems

• Mary P Griskewicz, M.S. FHIMSS,
• Sr. Director of Ambulatory Information Systems
• Jill Redenius, Coordinator

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Ambulatory Committee

• Working with leaders from large healthcare
  enterprises, small physician offices and the
  military health system, plus consulting and
  vendor communities, the Ambulatory Information
  Systems Steering Committee expands HIMSS ability
  to increase the quality and cost-effectiveness of
  patient care by removing barriers to IT adoption,
  and increasing the use of EHRs and Business
  Systems Integration in physician offices and
  outpatient care settings.
• Chair, Jenifer Jarriel, CIO Baylor School of
  Medicine, Texas

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Ambulatory Committees Groups

• Task Forces
• Practice Leadership
• Digital Office, eNewsletter
• Community Health Organizations
• Business Systems Integration
• First Responders
• Work Groups
• Public Comment Review
• Open Source Technology
• CHO EHR Best Practice
• CHO Membership
• CHO Advocacy
• EHR Adoption and Sustainability

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ACHOs Task Force Vision

• To be a national constituency of ambulatory
• community health organizations that
• encourages the informed development and
• adoption of interoperable HIT for improving
• patient care and cost-effectiveness for the
• underserved.

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ACHOs Task Force Mission

• To foster collaboration and information-sharing
  among Ambulatory CHOs and IT vendors that
• Produces cost, workflow and quality benefits,
• Promotes standardization/commonality in ACHO
  performance monitoring and interoperability,
• Identifies opportunities for successful HIT
  implementation and sustainability, and
• Publicizes models for success.
• Provide resources and Tools to HIMSS members on
  CHO adoption and use of Health Information
  Technology

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ACHO Leadership

• Task Force
• Chair, Barbara Hood CIO, Community Health Care
• Association of New York State
• Work groups
• Membership, Chair Mike Matull, Director of
  Information
• Technology, The Coalition of Orange County
  Community
• Clinics
• Vendor Advocacy, Chair Dr. Paul Kaye, Medical
  Director THINC
• EHR Best Practices, Chair Steven Glass, CIO
  Access
• Community Health Network

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Membership

• Open to all HIMSS members
• http//www.himss.org/ASP/individualHome.asp
• Task Force and Work Groups meet monthly

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Partners

• HRSA
• NACHC
• AHQA
• CMS DOQ-IT Program

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Sample of New Resources

• White Papers
• How to implement EHRs in doctors office
• Stand-Alone ePrescribing Ready or Not
• Behavior Health EMRs for Community Health
• 2007 Summary White Paper on HIT
• Web site - news resources and tools
• http//www.himss.org/ASP/topics_FocusDynamic.asp?f
  aid192

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Davies Awards of Excellence

• The program's objectives are to
• Promote the vision of EHR systems through
  concrete examples
• Understand and share documented value of EHR
  systems
• Provide visibility and recognition for
  high-impact EHR system
• Share successful EHR implementation strategies
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• 1995 First Organizational Awards
• 25 recognized to date
• 2003 First Ambulatory Awards
• 15 recognized to date
• 2004 First Public Health Awards
• 9 recognized to date

• Named in honor of Dr. Nicholas E. Davies, an
  Atlanta-based practice physician committed to the
  ideal of improving patient care through better
  health information management
• Encourages and recognizes excellence in the
  implementation of EMR-EHR systems
• Implementation
• Strategy
• Planning
• Project Management
• Governance
• Value and ROI

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Davies Resources Due Dates

• Resources
• Past recipients applications http//www.himss.org/
  asp/daviesAward.asp
• HIT Dashboardhttp//www.himss.org/StateDashboard/
  
• Davies white paper series
• http//www.himss.org/ASP/davies_whitepaper
  s.asp
• Davies book
• Improving Quality and Reducing Cost with
  Electronic Health Records Case Studies from the
  Nicholas E. Davies Awardshttp//marketplace.himss
  .org
• HIMSS08
• Presentations by 07 recipients across all three
  Award types

• 2008 - Application Due Dates
• Organizational Award Mon, March 31,
• Ambulatory Award Wed, April 30
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• Public Health Award Fri, March 14
• Community Health Organization (CHO) Award
• - To be launched first quarter 08
• - Application due date Fri, May 30
• For additional information
• David Collins
• HIMSS, Davies Awards Manager
• dcollins_at_himss.org or 703-562-8817

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Benefits

• Introspective look at your organization
• Recognition State, National, Congressional
• Get on the map http//www.himss.org/StateDashboard
  /mapPage.aspx
• Opportunity to present at HIMSS Annual Conference
• Opportunity to serve on Davies Committee
• Prestige

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Davies CHO Award

• HIMSS plans to announce the expansion of the
  Davies Award of Excellence program to include the
  Davies Community Health Organization (CHO) Award
  in the first quarter of 2008.
• The purpose of this award is to recognize CHOs
  that have succeeded with implementations of
  Electronic Health Records (EHR) in their clinics
  and to share their approaches and lessons learned
  more broadly. 
• Application requirements such as What Services
  must be Rendered, definition of What Counts as
  an EHR, Length of required EHR Implementation,
  are currently under development and will be
  provided with the launch of the Award. 

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• Davies Award - Committee Openings
• ---October 15 to November 15, 2007---
•   Any individual or corporate complimentary
  member
• Who is not already serving in a leadership
  capacity within the Society
• Individual members of HIMSS are ineligible for a
  Davies Committee appointment if they are either
• (a) employed by a vendor company or
• (b) directly working in an extensive consulting
  capacity with/for a vendor company 
• Visit www.himss.org/davies for
• Important Information Before Applying For a
  Davies Commitee Position
• Application

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Contact

• For further information please contact
• Mary P. Griskewicz
• HIMSS, Senior Director Ambulatory Information
  Systems
• mgriskewicz_at_himss.org or 203-421-8317
• David A. Collins, MHA, CPHQ, CPHIMS
• HIMSS, Sr. Manager, Davies Awards Program
• dcollins_at_himss.org or 703-562-8817

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Questions Discussion