Minnesota e-Health Update for the Week of April 22, 2013

Minnesota
Registration Now Open for the Minnesota e-Health Summit and Pre-Summit: June 12-13, 2013
Visit http://www.regonline.com/eHEALTH2013 to register for the 9th Annual Minnesota e-Health Summit:
e-Health: Connecting, Optimizing, Transforming, to be held June 13, 2013 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bloomington.

This year's confirmed keynote speaker is Judy Murphy, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). In addition, the morning plenary session will feature Alan Abramson, Chief Information Officer for HealthPartners, John Smylie, Chief Operating Officer for Essentia Health, sharing stories of navigating health reform and the vital role of EHRs in ensuring accountable care and improving care transitions, with Dr. Paul Kleeberg, Clinical Director for the Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT (REACH) as a reactor. 

On June 12, 2013 a joint Pre-Summit Workshop on Health Reform Preparedness will be co-presented by the Regional Extension and Assistance Center for HIT (REACH), the Southeast Minnesota Beacon Program, and the Minnesota TIGER Collaborative.

Visit Minnesota e-Health Summit for the complete brochure and more information on registration. General questions on the Minnesota e-Health Summit can be directed to bob.b.johnson@state.mn.us.

Summit sponsorships are still available; please contact Karen Beaulieu at kbeaulieu@mngts.org or 651-222-7409 x 203, for more information on sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities.

Minnesota e-Health Advisory Committee to Meet on Thursday, April 25, 2013
The Minnesota e-Health Advisory Committee will hold an extended meeting tomorrow, Thursday, April 25, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The focus of the meeting will be to review the sustainability and future opportunities of HITECH programs in Minnesota, discuss the potential role of the Advisory Committee in health reform activities, and learn about e-health related research activities in the state with a discussion on future research needs.

The meeting will be held at the HealthPartners Corporate location in Bloomington. Directions and maps to the meeting location are available at the following link: http://www.healthpartners.com/files/24818.pdf. All Minnesota e-Health Advisory Committee meetings are open to the public. Visitors should park in the visitor parking lot and must check in with security upon entering the facility. For more information, email Bob Johnson at bob.b.johnson@state.mn.us.

REACH Webinar:  “The Doctor Can’t Do It All: Involving Everyone to Improve Care Using Electronic Health Records”
The Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT for Minnesota and North Dakota (REACH) is offering a webinar that will the issue that with increasing demands for higher quality, more cost-effective patient care, it is impossible for the physician to provide all recommended and needed services during a typical office visit. Learn more about empowering your staff to use the EHR to communicate with patients, order labs and immunizations, schedule appointments, adjust medications and provide other care can dramatically improve quality. Objectives include:

  • Understand how electronic health records can be used to allow all staff and providers to contribute towards improving patient care.
  • Discover how to analyze existing processes to identify opportunities for all team members to participate in improving care.
  • Learn how to implement an organization wide quality bonus program.

 When: April 30, 2013, Noon – 1:00p.m. Central Time
Cost: Free for REACH clients, $50 for non-REACH participants
Register online

Did you know…
In 2012, 39% percent of clinics in Minnesota with EHRs provided an electronic summary care record for 80% or more of patients who required a care transition. This is a slight increase from 35% in 2011. For referrals, 36% of clinics provided an electronic summary care record, up from 29% in 2011.
Source: Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Health Information Technology, MN HIT Ambulatory Clinic Survey, 2012.

National
National Survey on Health Information Exchange in Clinical Laboratories
ONC is conducting the National Survey on Health Information Exchange in Clinical Laboratories to provide policymakers with a comprehensive understanding of electronic laboratory information exchange capacity and activity among clinical laboratories across the nation. The survey includes information on laboratory information exchange, including the volume of test results sent electronically, adoption of standards, current information systems used, and barriers and facilitators for exchange. ONC will use these survey findings to monitor progress regarding electronic laboratory exchange and to inform policies that promote the exchange of structured test results among laboratories and ordering providers. ONC and their partner NORC, is administering the survey through May to a random sample of approximately 12,000 hospital and independent laboratories. 

For more information or to find out if your laboratory has been selected to participate, please email labsurvey@norc.org or call 1-800-975-2754. Survey results will be published this summer to www.healthIT.gov. Please encourage your laboratory partners to participate!

*Minnesota Note:In 2010, the Minnesota Department of Health’s Office of Health Information Technology conducted a statewide survey of 137 clinical labs on the status, gaps and barriers for standards-based electronic orders and results. At that time, 97% of the labs had a laboratory information system (LIS) but most labs were not using LOINC or SNOMED. 

To address this gap, The Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota e-Health Initiative in conjunction with the Laboratory Interoperability Cooperative (LIC) are pleased to offer Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) Laboratory LOINC® Mapping Guidance educational resources to hospitals in Minnesota, including a free workshop on June 14th. To participate in the workshop and access the LIC online education resources, each facility must complete a Hospital Participation Letter as part of the registration process.
When: June 14, 2013, 9:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
Where: Bloomington, MN
Register today for the free training. Space is limited to 4 participants per hospital (participation letter covers all hospital participants). 

Reminder: Free Webinar: “Using an Electronic Health Record for Health Information Exchange and Interoperability for Safety Net Providers”
Join the Health Resources and Services Administration for a free Webinar on how safety net providers can electronically exchange health information and achieve interoperability using electronic health records (EHRs). Exchanging electronic health information with other providers is a requirement under Stage 2 of Meaningful Use and has been shown to reduce costs and duplication of services, increase patient engagement, enhance patient safety, and improve healthcare quality.
When: Friday April 26, 2013, 1:00p.m. CST
Register

Updated Monday, 06-May-2013 10:49:39 CDT