Minnesota e-Health

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Standards, Interoperability & EHR Certification

Minnesota Requirements, Recommendations & Resources

Guide 2: Standards Recommended to Achieve Interoperability in Minnesota: Updated 2011 (PDF 2.57MB/50 pg)
Minnesota e-Health Standards Reccomendations Endorsed by the 2010-11 Minnesota e-Health Advisory Committee
Guide 2 Includes Information on:

Interoperable Electronic Health Record Requirements

Electronic Prescription Drug Program

Laboratory Results Reporting

Immunization Information Exchange

Exchange of Clinical Summaries

Minnesota e-Health Framework for Interoperability

Key actions for achieving and advancing electronic health information exchange

Annotated resource list

Resources for Minnesota e-Health Standards and EHR Certification (pdf 122KB/10 pg)

Public Health Data Standards (pdf 41KB/ 6pg)
Improving How Public Health Collects, Exchanges and Uses Data.

Uniform Standards Requirement/Mandate in Minnesota
Minnesota law related to uniform standards requirement, Minnesota Statutes 62J.495, subd. 1.

Standards Workgroup Activities
The meeting materials and schedule for the 2011-2012 Standards Workgroup of the Minnesota e-Health Initiative.

Minnesota Response to National HIT Standards Recommendations (PDF 116KB/5pg)
The Minnesota e-Health Initiative coordinated response to ONC on recommendations related to implementation of standards.

National HIT Standards Committee Recommendations

The standards committee is charged with making recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT) on standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of health information. The Committee’s recommendations focus on the following areas: Clinical Quality, Clinical Operations, and Privacy and Security.

Clinical Quality (pdf 110KB/ 12pg)
Recommendations pertain to the appropriate standardized performance measures that correspond to the HIT Policy Committee’s 2011 Meaningful Use Measures. The recommendations include 30 quality performance measures and the data types required for each, of which National Quality Forum (NQF)-endorsed measures can either be retooled for use in an Electronic Health Record (EHR) or will require attestation for the foreseeable future.

Clinical Operations (pdf 80KB/ 17pg)
Recommendations focus on standards for 2011 Meaningful Use, including quality data reporting, messaging formats, and all the vocabularies necessary for semantic interoperability.

Privacy and Security (pdf 104KB/ 17pg)
Recommendations focus on authentication, authorization, auditing and secure data transmission standards as well as Meaningful Use measures related to HIPAA compliance.

Meaningful Use (pdf 95KB/ 10pg)
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) provides for incentives for the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) technology. Those applying for incentives must demonstrate that they are meaningful users of certified EHR technology.

The recommendations from the HIT Policy Committee (as of Aug 2009) to the Office of the National Coordinator for defining “meaningful use” which includes objectives and measures for defining “meaningful use” by timeline (2011, 2013 & 2015).

Adoption (pdf 197KB/ 7pg)
Review of the Adoption Experience Hearing with Top Ten Recommendations for Implementation/Adoption.