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ONC 2010 Update Webcast: Dec 14-15, 2010

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Save the Date: ONC 2010 Update Webcast
December 14-15, 2010
Received via email from Office of National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT on 12/8/2010:
To participate in the Webcast, click here. No pre-registration required.

Please join the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) for a live webcast of plenary sessions as part of the 2010 ONC Update on December 14-15, 2010.

Ten sessions, offered over the two-day period, will provide an overview of programs brought about by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to help participants gain a better understanding of how these programs will address barriers and support providers in achieving meaningful use.

The sessions will also provide an overview of ONC’s vision and strategy for improving health and health care through information technology and will offer a detailed look at key elements of ONC and related HHS programs, including:

• Overview of HITECH programs designed to support providers in achieving meaningful use, including the extension center program and ONC’s many workforce development programs

• Update on privacy regulations and activities in the Office of the Chief Privacy Officer

• Overview of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs

• Strategies for getting to health information exchange

• Promoting patient-centered care delivery by empowering consumers and engaging the public

• Strategies for improving care and population health

• Encouraging innovation, rapid learning and technological advancement

Speakers include:

• Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary

• David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ONC

• Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy, ONC

• Joy Pritts, JD, HHS Chief Privacy Officer, ONC

• Don Berwick, MD, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

• Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, HHS

• Other Health IT leaders and professionals

An agenda of the meeting is available at http://healthit.hhs.gov/ONCMeeting2010 [or see below].

To participate in the Webcast, click here. No pre-registration required.

2010 ONC Update – Meeting Agenda

December 14 – 15, 2010
Available via Live Webcast [Details to come]

Information on how to participate in the webcast will be posted on the agenda before the meeting.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

8:30 – 9:00 am Opening Remarks
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Introduction by David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), HHS

9:00 – 9:45 am
An Overview of ONC’s Vision and the Role of Health IT and HITECH in Health System Change and Health Care Reform
David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ONC

Donald Berwick, MD
Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS

9:45 – 10:15 am
An Overview of ONC’s Strategy and Programs
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy, ONC

10:15 – 11:00 am
Break

11:00 – 12:15 pm
Update on Privacy Regulations and Activities in the Office of the Chief Privacy Officer
Joy Pritts, JD, HHS Chief Privacy Officer, ONC

12:15 – 12:30 pm
Break

12:30 – 2:00 pm
Getting to Health Information Exchange
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy, ONC
Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, Director, Office of Standards and Interoperability, ONC
Claudia Williams, Acting Director, State Health Information Exchange Program, ONC

2:00 – 2:15 pm
Break

2:15 – 3:30 pm
An Overview of HITECH Programs Supporting Providers in Achieving Meaningful Use

Moderator:
Mat Kendall, Director, Office of Provider Adoption and Support, ONC

Panelists:
Paul Kleeberg, MD, Clinical Director, REACH
Robyn Leone, Regional Extension Center Director, Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
Norma Morganti, Executive Director, Midwest Community College Health IT Consortium, led by Cuyahoga Community College
Rick Shoup, Director, Massachusetts eHealth Institute

3:30 – 3:45 pm
Break

3:45 – 5:00 pm
An Overview of Medicare and Medicaid Incentive Programs

Moderator:
Michelle Mills, CMS

Panelists:
Robert Anthony, CMS
Elizabeth Holland, CMS
Jessica Kahn, CMS

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

9:30 – 10:45 am
Promoting Patient-Centered Care Delivery by Empowering Consumers, Engaging the Public

Moderator:
Joshua Seidman, PhD, Director, Meaningful Use, ONC

Panelists:
Christine Bechtel, Vice President, National Partnership for Women and Families
Silas Buchanan, Director of E-Health Initiatives, The Cave Institute
Tom Sellers, MPA, President and Chief Executive Officer, 11-Year Cancer Survivor, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

10:45 – 1:00 pm
Break

1:00 – 1:45 pm
The Role of HITECH in Supporting Public Health Goals
Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS

2:00 – 3:15 pm
Encouraging Innovation: Rapid Learning and Technological Advancement
Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, HHS

3:15 – 3:30 pm
Break|

3:30 – 4:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy, ONC

Michigan, Nebraska brings to Eleven, No. of Strategic & Operational Plans Approved by ONC; Eight of which ONC has posted

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Plans Approved for California, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah
Versions of ten of eleven state plans are publicly available.”
See updated list–15 state plans–on e-Healthcare Marketing post from December 18, 2010.
These plans and dates were excerpted on December 8, 2010 from Office of National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT’s “State HIE Toolkit.” These are from section called “Planning Examples & Case Studies.”

“The State HIE Toolkit is a compilation of resources provided under the auspices of the State HIE Program sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).”

Examples of ONC approved Strategic and Operational Plans:

  1. New Mexico Strategic and Operational Plan V2 (update posted 5/18/10) 
  2. Utah Strategic and Operational Plan (posted 5/18/10)
  3. Maryland Strategic and Operational Plan (posted 6/10/10)
  4. Tennessee Gap Analysis and Strategic and Operational Plans (posted 10/1/10)
  5. South Carolina Strategic and Operational Plans (posted 10/5/10)
  6. Texas Strategic and Operational Plan (posted 12/1/10)
  7. Nebraska Strategic and Operational Plans (posted 12/7/10)
  8. Michigan Strategic and Operational Plans and Amendment (posted 12/7/10)

States/SDEs with Approved Strategic and Operational Plans
Updated 12/8/10
Both California and Maine plans, while not yet posted by ONC, have been previously posted on e-Healthcare Marketing. (See link at bottom of this post.) Still need to ascertain if the California and Maine plans posted on e-Healthcare Marketing are final approved plans.

State Date Approved Date Posted Documents
California 6/16/2010 Will be posted soon  
Delaware 5/17/2010 Will be posted soon  
Maine 8/16/10 Will be posted soon  
Maryland 5/14/10 6/10/10
New Mexico 1/25/10 5/18/10
South Carolina 8/30/10 10/5/10
Tennessee 9/17/10 10/1/10
Utah 5/12/10 5/18/10
Texas 11/3/10 12/1/10
Nebraska   12/7/10
Michigan   12/7/10

See e-Healthcare Marketing post for 31 State Health Information Exchange Plans, last updated on November 21, 2010. The Nov 21 update still needs to be reviewed and revised based on plan revisions not yet captured in that post.

ONC Issues ‘Health Information Exchange Challenge Program’ Announcement

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State Grants to Promote Health Information Technology (Health Information Exchange Challenge Program)
Notice of Intent to Apply Due Dec 10, 2010; Applications Dues Jan 5, 2011
Announced by Office of National Coordinator(ONC)  for Health IT on December 3, 2010.
Supplement to current State HIE Awardees
Synopsis: “This funding announcement for the Health Information Exchange Challenge Program encourages breakthrough progress for nationwide health information exchange in five challenge areas identified as key needs since Federal and State governments began implementation of the HITECH Act. The awards will fund the development of technology and approaches that will be developed in pilot sites and then shared, reused, and leveraged by other states and communities to increase nationwide interoperability.

“The five themes include:
1. Achieving health goals through health information exchange
2. Improving long-term and post-acute care transitions
3. Giving patients access to their own health information
4. Developing tools and approaches to search for and share granular patient data (such as specific lab results for a given time period)
5. Fostering strategies for population-level analysis”

“Awards will range between $1 million and $2 million each, and will be in the form of supplemental funding to State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreements, which have provided approximately half a billion dollars to states and State designated entities to enable health information exchange. Funding for this initiative is approximately $16 million which ONC anticipates will support 10 awards.”

ONC Listing for Program
Funding Announcement [PDF]

Excerpted from PDF on 12/06/2010:

1. Funding Opportunity Description
 

A. Background and Purpose
Background

On February 1, 2009, the President signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This statute includes the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (the HITECH Act) that sets forth a plan for advancing the appropriate use of health information technology to improve the quality and efficiency of care. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was statutorily created by the HITECH Act within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ONC serves as the principal federal entity charged with coordinating the overall effort to implement a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of health information.
As authorized by ARRA (Title XIII, Health Information Technology, Subtitle B, Incentives for Use of Health Information Technology, Sec. 3013, State Grants to Promote Health Information Exchange), the State Health Information Exchange (HIE) Cooperative Agreement Program provides funding to states for planning, capacity building, and implementation activities that will enable health care providers to share health information throughout the continuum of care in order to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
On August 20, 2009, ONC issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), making $564 million available to states or State Designated Entities (SDEs) to develop and implement the governance, policies, technical services, business operations and financing mechanisms necessary to advance appropriate and secure health information exchange across the health care system. A Program Information Notice (PIN) was released on July 6, 2010 further detailing the expectations for the strategic and operational HIE plans developed and implemented by states and SDEs.

This FOA seeks to build on other funding opportunities by making approximately $16 million available for targeted initiatives in five areas.

Purpose
 

Widespread adoption and meaningful use of HIT is a foundational step in improving the quality and efficiency of health care. The appropriate and secure electronic exchange and consequent use of health information to improve quality and coordination of care is a critical enabler of a high performance health care system.
The State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program is intended to:
• Enable statewide capacity for HIE to allow eligible professionals and hospitals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid meaningful use incentives;

• Ensure that states address privacy and security issues to allow for the proper access to and use of personal health information;

• Build off of existing state-level and regional efforts to advance HIE;

• Encourage the use of shared resources, services, and state directories to reduce HIE development costs and facilitate interoperability among providers within states; and

• Provide states with enough flexibility to accommodate their unique requirements, yet ensure nationwide interoperability on a policy and technical level.

This funding announcement encourages breakthrough progress for nationwide health information exchange in five challenge areas identified as key needs since Federal and State governments began implementation of the HITECH Act. The awards will fund the development of technology and approaches that will be developed in pilot sites and then shared, reused, and leveraged by other states and communities to increase nationwide interoperability.

ONC recognizes that achieving breakthrough innovations requires taking risks. In each of the five challenge themes we need rapid discovery of what approaches work, and which do not. ONC is not looking for applicants to exactly replicate known success, but to recommend innovative and potentially scalable approaches and a strategy for testing what works, making adjustments to the approach and quickly and publicly sharing the results.

Building on the Strategy for Nationwide Interoperability
 

The five challenge themes in this funding opportunity announcement address persistent barriers to nationwide health information exchange and interoperability.
 

The two challenge themes related to consumer-mediated information exchange—whereby consumers aggregate and maintain their own health information through a personal health record or other tools—and inclusion of long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers in health information exchange aim to facilitate the development, implementation, and dissemination of health information exchange solutions for stakeholders with unique interoperability concerns. While existing state and SDE grantees have incorporated private sector actors, such as primary care providers, health IT vendors, health plans, and Regional Extension Centers (RECs), into their HIE strategic and operational plans, breakthrough solutions are needed to reach other stakeholders critical to the success of the nationwide strategy.
The two challenge themes enabling population-level health analytics and enhanced data queries aim to advance analytic resources and scalable solutions to leverage health information exchange for population level learning and improvement. Breakthrough solutions in these challenge themes will lead to the identification of more effective care delivery strategies, quality reporting, and surveillance for public health risks.
The final challenge theme is geared toward demonstrating improved health outcomes through health information exchange, demonstrating how interoperability among clinical systems can transform health care to achieve measurable health care improvement.

Encouraging the Use, Reuse, and Leveraging of Technical Solutions Developed Under Challenge Grants for Nationwide Health Information Exchange
 

The breakthrough solutions, designs, and processes created under these challenge grants shall be made available to any state or SDE for incorporation into their health information exchange activities.
To receive an award through this FOA, applicants must demonstrate their ability to satisfy a number of general funding requirements. These requirements include: 1) making breakthrough solutions openly available and re-useable by other regions, states, and/or SDEs; 2) creating initiatives that are easily scalable to other regions, states, and/or SDEs; and 3) participating in an open, transparent sharing process which may require participation in a learning community and/or mentoring and supporting other grantees.

B. Project Approach
 

Each application shall address one of the challenge themes and the general funding requirements outlined below. ONC expects to make approximately ten awards ranging from $1 million to $2 million as supplements to current Cooperative Agreements with states and SDEs.
Applications must address two key aspects of this program:
• Implement an effective and scalable initiative addressing a specific challenge theme from the list provided below

• Broadly share and disseminate the results and innovations developed in the program

New Series of ONC Fact Sheets on EHR, HIE Programs and Health IT Topics

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ONC Fact Sheets Page
New Information Pages/Sheets published by ONC on 12/3/2010.

'Get The Facts' Fact Sheet

'Get The Facts' Fact Sheet

 On December 3, 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT published seven new one-page Fact Sheets on a range of their Health IT initiatives in both HTML and PDF formats. In addition ONC published links to two Health IT programs, one from Department of Health and Human Services in 2007, and the other updated in September 2009 from AHRQ. 

 The seven ONC one-pagers appear to be the first shots of a more extensive PR campaign to get the word out  beyond those “already in the know,” to those physicians, healthcare professionals, and the general public who have not been following HITECH, ONC, and the state-level  Health IT programs as closely as the early adopters. They will also provide materials for the regional extension centers to distribute to physicians and clinicians.

About Electronic Health Records      

HITECH Programs
     Get the Facts about

Health IT Topics

Links to HTML versions of the seven ONC Fact Sheets on e-Healthcare Marketing.
In addition to the links above which go to the ONC Web site, the seven Fact Sheets are available in HTML on e-Healthcare Marketing.

1. Electronic Health Records: Advancing America’s Health Care
2. Using EHRs to Improve Health Care in Your Practice and Community
3. Beacon Community Program
4. State Health Information Exchange
5. HIT Extension Program (Regional Extension Centers)
6. SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) Program
7. Health IT Workforce Development Program

ONC Fact Sheet: Beacon Community Program

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ONC Fact Sheet: Get the Facts on Beacon Community Program
Published on ONC site 12/3/2010.

Improving the nation’s health care through health information technology (health IT) is a major initiative for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and other HHS agencies are working together to assist health care providers with the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records.

ONC’s Beacon Community Program will help guide the way to a transformed health care system. The program will fund more than a dozen demonstration communities that have already made inroads into the adoption of health information technology (health IT), including electronic health records and health information exchange. Beacon Communities will advance new, innovative ways to improve care coordination, improve the quality of care, and slow the growth of health care spending.

About the Beacon Communities
The goal of the Beacon Community Program is simple: to show how health IT tools and resources can contribute to communities’ efforts to  make breakthrough advancements in health care quality, safety, efficiency, and in public health at the community level and to demonstrate that these gains are sustainable and replicable.

In May 2010, ONC awarded 15 grants totaling $220 million to communities across the country that are leading the way in health IT. Two additional grants totaling $30 million were awarded in September 2010. Communities will use funding to:

  • Build and strengthen their health IT infrastructure and exchange capabilities
  • Demonstrate how meaningful use of electronic health records and health IT can lead to  improvements in health care quality, reductions in unnecessary costs, and gains in public health
  • Provide support and guidance to other communities for achieving meaningful use and measurable health care improvements and cost savings

Communities will work with other Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act programs, including the Regional Extension Center Program and State Health Information Exchange Program, to:

  • Develop and disseminate best practices for adopting and using health IT to improve quality and cost outcomes
  • Foster national goals for widespread meaningful use of health IT

The Beacon Community Program will also support the development of secure nationwide health information exchange strategies to improve the health care of all Americans.

The HITECH Act establishes programs to accelerate the meaningful use of health IT. The aim is to improve both the health of Americans and the performance of our nation’s health care system.

For More Information About:

Download Get the Facts about Beacon Community Program [PDF - 270 KB]

ONC Fact Sheet: State Health Information Exchange Program

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ONC Fact Sheet: Get the Facts on State Health Information Exchange Program
Published on ONC site on 12/3/2010

Improving the nation’s health care through health information technology (health IT) is a major initiative for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and other HHS agencies are working together to assist health care providers with the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records.

The ONC-funded State Health Information Exchange (HIE) Cooperative Agreement Program promotes innovative approaches to the secure exchange of health information within and across states and ensures that health care providers and hospitals meet national standards and meaningful use requirements. Demonstrating the secure sharing of information among providers is an essential part of using electronic health records in a meaningful way to qualify for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.

About the State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program
In March 2010, ONC granted 56 awards totaling $548 million to help states (including territories) develop and advance resources to facilitate the exchange of health information among health care providers and hospitals within their jurisdictions to ultimately encourage and support information exchange across states. The awards were made to states or organizations designated by states to participate in the program.  

The program aims to ensure that every eligible health care provider has at least one option for health information exchange that meets the requirements of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, defined by CMS in a final rule released on July 13, 2010. To this end, awardees will use their funding to:

  • Create and implement up-to-date privacy and security requirements for HIE
  • Coordinate with Medicaid and state public health programs to establish an integrated approach
  • Monitor and track meaningful use HIE capabilities in their state
  • Set strategy to meet gaps in HIE capabilities
  • Ensure consistency with national standards
HIE is fundamental to realizing the full potential of meaningful use of electronic health records and health information technology that can lead to improved coordination, quality, and efficiency of health care.

For More Information About:

Download Get the facts about the State Health Information Exchange Program [PDF - 490 KB]

ONC Fact Sheet: Health IT Workforce Development Program

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ONC Fact Sheet: Health IT Workforce Development Program
Published on ONC site 12/3/2010.

Health information technology professionals are in demand.

As the nation moves toward a more technologically advanced health care system, providers are going to need highly skilled health IT experts to support them in the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records.

To help address this growing demand, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has funded the Health IT Workforce Development Program. The goal is to train a new workforce of health IT professionals who will be ready to help providers implement electronic health records to improve health care quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness.

About the Workforce Development Program
ONC has awarded $84 million in funding for the following Health IT Workforce Development Program activities:

  • Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals:Five regional groups of more than 70 community colleges in all 50 states have $36 million in grants to develop or improve non-degree health IT training programs that can be completed in six months or less. Programs established through this grant will help train more than 10,500 new health IT professionals annually by 2012.
  • Program of Assistance for University-Based Training:Nine grants totaling $32 million have been awarded to colleges and universities to quickly establish or expand health IT training programs for health IT professional roles requiring training at the university level.  Over the course of the grant, these programs will help more than 1,500 people receive certificates of advanced study or master’s degrees in health IT. All of the certificate programs can be completed in one year or less, and all of the master’s degree programs can be completed in two years or less.
  • Curriculum Development Centers:  $10 million has been awarded to five universities for the development of educational materials for the Community College Consortia program. The materials will also be made available to other schools across the country.
  • Competency Examination Program:A two-year, $6 million grant has been awarded to fund the development of competency exams for health IT professionals.

For More Information About:

Download Get the facts about Health IT Workforce Development Program [PDF - 267 KB]

ONC Listens: BluePrint at ONC Innovations Seminar

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ONC Listens: BluePrint at ONC Innovations Seminar
Note: On October 25, 2010, the ONC Innovations Seminar was led by BluePrint Healthcare IT in Washington, DC. The one-hour seminar entitled “HITECH in New Jersey: A View from the Private Sector” was part of a series featuring people from outside the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT sharing their experiences and ideas with the Office. This post reports on how three of my BluePrint colleagues and I got to speak with about twenty members of ONC (including several on a conference line) and share our experiences.

ONC Innovations Seminar
Sachin Jain MD, MBA, Special Assistant to David Blumenthal; and Wil Yu, Special Assistant for Innovation to the National Coordinator, invited the BluePrint team to Washington, DC to lead Monday’s ONC Innovation Seminar. Members of BluePrint had previously worked with the New Jersey and Delaware Valley HIMSS chapters to invite Jain and Yu to speak and meet with attendees at the chapters’ joint fall conference in Atlantic City in September.

Jain initiated the ONC Innovations Series, which in its official description took “place every one to two weeks (for members of the ONC staff) and will bring in noted experts from the health IT community including technologists, patient and community advocates, grantees, academic researchers, government officials and others.”

Seminar leaders have included Michael Porter (Harvard Business School and thought leader on Competitive Advantage), Mark McClelland (former head of FDA and CMS, now heading the Engleberg Center for Health  Care Reform at Brookings), Peter Pronovost  (Johns Hopkins physician and leader in patient safety), Lonny Reisman (Aetna’s chief medical officer), Richard Baron (Philadelphia area physician with Greenhouse Internists) and Rushika  Fernandopulle (an Atlantic City physician).

Case Studies
Speaking with ONC members at its October 25 seminar, BluePrint used three case studies to illustrate health IT challenges and how it was helping hospitals solve them: fast-tracking meaningful use security risk assessments; developing and implementing a workflow software tool to manage access to enterprise-wide software; and setting up a five-stage security and privacy framework at a community hospital to strengthen physician relationships and foster greater trust with patients. It also described its two-hour seminars offered to hospital leadership to prepare for meaningful use and readiness to receive EHR incentive payments.

BluePrint’s Public Policy Role—New Jersey and beyond
The seminar pointed out the new momentum fostered by New Jersey’s health IT leadership—statewide Health IT Coordinator Colleen Woods and Bill O’Byrne, executive director of NJ-HITEC, the state’s regional extension center. New Jersey submitted its HIE operational plan to ONC in August, and NJ-HITEC kicked off its clinician sign-up program for meaningful use support in October.

Based on working with hospital CIOs, Vikas Khosla, the President and CEO of BluePrint, described the transformation of hospital and multi-hospital system CIOs from systems implementation and management executives to leaders of healthcare change management. Founded in 2003 to advise hospitals and multi-hospital systems on security and privacy issues, BluePrint has taken on a public policy role as well, including producing a series of workshops on HITECH Breach Enforcement in collaboration with NJ HIMSS and having Vikas serve as a subject matter expert for the state HIT Committee on Privacy and Security.

The ONC’s Listening Continues
This seminar series demonstrates one way ONC listens and learns. Another example, for which registration just opened this week, is the Personal Health Record Roundtable on December 3 in Washington, DC, to be chaired by HHS Chief Privacy Officer Joy Pritts. The roundtable will hear panels of “researchers, legal scholars, and representatives of consumer, patient, and industry organizations” in order to prepare recommendations, as stipulated in HITECH Act,  “related to the application of privacy and security requirements to non-HIPAA Covered Entities, with a focus on personal health record vendors and related service provider.”

To the readers of e-Healthcare Marketing,  who are used to seeing this blogger’s collections of information and reports about Health IT and EHRs, thank you for taking the time to read about  the Washington trip of Vikas Khosla, President and CEO; Gregory Michaels, Director, Security and Compliance Solutions; Mohit Pasricha, Chief Solutions Architect, and me, Mike Squires, Vice President, Strategic Development and Public Policy, BluePrint Healthcare IT www.blueprinthit.com .
– Mike Squires

Health IT Community College Consortia Directory: Educating HIT Professionals

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Directory of Community Colleges Participating in Workforce Training Program
http://healthit.hhs.gov/communitycollege
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT has added Web sites for the Health IT  Workforce training programs of most of the participating Community Colleges. The fully sortable list can be reached at the ONC page cited above. The list below is pre-sorted by state.

ONC Community College Consortium:
Two of the five consortium have established group Web sites:
Midwest Community College HIT Consortium:
http://www.mwhit.org/
Western Region Health IT Workforce Training: 
http://wrhealthit.org/

Community Colleges Sorted by State
Many contain links to the programs.
Excerpted from ONC Web site on 10/16/2010.

School Region City State
National Park Community College – AR D Hot Springs AR
Pima College B Tucson AZ
Maricopa College B Phoenix AZ
Los Rios Community College District B Sacramento CA
Cosumnes River College B Sacramento CA
Butte College B Oroville CA
Mission College B Santa Clara CA
Fresno City College B Fresno CA
Santa Barbara City College B Santa Barbara CA
Cypress College B Cypress CA
East LA College B Monterey Park CA
Santa Monica College B Santa Monica CA
Orange Coast College B Costa Mesa CA
San Diego Mesa College B San Diego CA
Pueblo Community College A Pueblo CO
Capital Community College E Hartford CT
Community College of DC E Washington DC
Broward College – FL D Coconut Creek FL
Indian River State College – FL D Ft. Pierce FL
Santa Fe College – FL D Gainesville FL
Atlanta Technical College D Atlanta GA
U of Hawaii Community College – Kapiolan B Honolulu HI
Des Moines Area Community College C Ankeny IA
Kirkwood Community College C Cedar Rapids IA
North Idaho College A Coeur d’Alene ID
Moraine Valley Community College C Palos Hills IL
Johnson County Community College C Overland Park KS
Kentucky Comm and Tech Coll System D Versailles KY
Delgado Community College – LA D New Orleans LA
Bristol Community College E Fall River MA
Community College of Baltimore County E Baltimore City MD
Kennebec Valley Community College E Fairfield ME
Southern Maine Community College E South Portland ME
Delta College C University Center MI
Lansing Community College C Lansing MI
Macomb Community College C Warren MI
Wayne County Community College C Detroit MI
Normandale Community College C Bloomington MN
St. Louis Community College C St. Louis MO
Hinds Community College – MS D Raymond MS
Itawamba Community College – MS D Tupelo MS
Montana Tech A Butte MT
Pitt Community College D Winterville NC
Catawba Valley Community College – NC D Hickory NC
Central Piedmont Community College – NC D Charlotte NC
Pitt Community College – NC D Winterville NC
Lake Region State College A Devil’s Lake ND
Metropolitan Community College C Omaha NE
Community College system of New Hampshire E Concord NH
Brookdale Community College E Lincroft NJ
Burlington County College E Pemberton NJ
Camden County College E Blackwood NJ
Essex County College E Newark NJ
Gloucester County College E Sewall NJ
Ocean County College E Toms River NJ
Passaic County Community College E Paterson NJ
Raritan Valley Community College E Branchburg NJ
College of Southern Nevada B Las Vegas NV
Bronx Community College E Bronx NY
Suffolk County Community College E Brentwood NY
Westchester Community College E Valhalla NY
West Virginia Northern Community College E Wheeling NY
Cuyahoga Community College C Cleveland OH
Cincinnati State Technical & Community College C Cincinnati OH
Columbus State Community College C Columbus OH
Sinclair Community College C Dayton OH
Tulsa Community College – OK D Tulsa OK
Community College of Allegheny County E Pittsburgh PA
Florence/Darlington – SC D Florence SC
Dakota State University A Madison SD
Chattanooga State Community College – TN D Chaaannooga TN
Dyersburg State Community College – TN D Dyersburg TN
Walters State CC – TN D Morristown TN
Dallas County Comm Coll District – TX D Dallas TX
Houston Community College – TX D Houston TX
Midland College – TX D Midland TX
Salt Lake Community College A Salt Lake City UT
Tidewater Community College E Virginia Beach VA
Northern Virginia Community College E Annadale VA
Community College of Vermont E Waterbury VT
Bellevue College A Bellevue WA
Portland Community College A Portland WA
Madison Area Technical College C Madison WI
Milwaukee Area Technical College C Milwaukee WI

Meaningful Use — What it really means for you!: Oct 15 NY State HIMSS Fall Event

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New York State HIMSS / Mini-HIMSS Fall Event:
Meaningful Use – What it really means for you!
Friday, October 15, 2010 
8:00am – 6:00pm
Location: New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania
(401 7th Ave. & 33rd St. – Midtown Manhattan)
http://himssnys.org/

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Conference Agenda Now Available (PDF)!

With federal Meaningful Use compliance dates looming, provider and healthcare organization leaders must navigate the complex regulatory landscape to fully recognize stimulus incentives. Join colleagues and peers as Healthcare IT leaders from across the state participate in discussions on Meaningful Use requirements and implications as well as related state HIT strategies and initiatives.

Keynote speakers include:

  • David Whitlinger, Executive Director of New York eHeatlh Collaborative
  • Rachel Block, Deputy Commissioner, Office of HIT Transformation, NYS Department of Health
  • Dr. Amanda Parsons, Assistant Commissioner of the Primary Care Information Project, NYC Health Department
  • Dr. Holly Miller, CMIO MedAllies & HIMSS national Board of Directors Vice-Chair Elect
  • Dr. Steven Arnold, CMO of the Virginia Premier Health Plan & HIMSS national Board of Director

CIO panel discussion moderated by past HIMSS national Chair George “Buddy” Hickman, featuring:

  • Paul Conocenti, Senior Vice President, Vice Dean, and CIO, NYU Medical Center
  • Robert Diamond, Vice President and CIO, HealthQuest
  • Jerry Powell, CIO, University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital
Click here to view the CIO panel biographies.

Physician panel discussion moderated by past HIMSS New York State Chapter Chair Dr. Ken Ong, featuring:

  • Alison Connelly, Clinical Systems Administrator and Physician Assistant at Urban Health Plan, Bronx, New York
  • Dr. Olive Osborne, ophthalmology physician, Bronx, New York
  • Dr. Urmilla Shivram, pulmonology and internal medicine physician, Oakland Gardens, New York

Raffles will be held throughout the day and conference to be followed by Vendor Exhibition and Cocktail Reception.

The CPHIMS certification exam will also be offered at the conference (Click here to register for CPHIMS exam).

To register for this important event, please click on the following link: Registration Information