Basic Training: Meaningful Use for Public Health Professionals

Swan and Dolphin Hotel (Mockingbird 1)

May 24, 2011, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

The CDC and AMIA are teaming up to offer a training program designed to describe the implications of Meaningful Use (MU) for the public health professional. The Meaningful Use pre-conference training for Public Health will be presented to public health professionals as a day-long, free-of-charge course on May 24, 2011. (AMIA’s PHI 2011 conference convenes May 25-27 at the same venue.) This tutorial-style program will cover the following topics:

• The regulatory and temporal timeframe of Meaningful Use;
• Standardization required for Meaningful Use implementation;
• The CDC’s Public Health Information Network (PHIN,) including its resources; and
• Meaningful Use adoption by public health and how it will be monitored

The program’s chair is Dr. Seth Foldy, director of the CDC’s Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office. Additional faculty are:

• Bill Brand MPH, CPHIE, director of Programs, Public Health Informatics Institute
• Jim Daniel, MPH, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
• Martin LaVenture, MPH, PhD, Office of Health Information Technology, Center for Health Informatics and e-Health, Minnesota Department of Health and University of Minesota
• Roniqua Watkins, MS, CDC’s Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office
• Nedra Garrett, CDC’s Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office
• Jim Kirkwood, MPH, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

The pre-conference training on Meaningful Use is intended for public health Meaningful Use coordinators; electronic laboratory reporting (ELR), immunization registry and syndromic surveillance managers; and other public health professionals.

Registration

* The online registration is now closed. To register, please come to the onsite registration desk located in the Swan foyer, beginning 2 pm,
on Tuesday May 24.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the pre-conference training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the regulatory and temporal timeframe of Meaningful Use
• Understand the standardization required for Meaningful Use implementation
• Achieve familiarity with PHIN, including its resources
• Understand how Meaningful Use adoption by public health will be monitored

Course Outline

Regulatory and Temporal Timeframe of Meaningful Use, Bill Brand & Jim Daniel

• Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act goals, funding and structures
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Incentive Program: provider eligibility, requirements, timetables; roles of CMS and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC); CMS attestation process
• Stages, categories and objectives for meaningful use
• Intent and actual requirements for public health and population meaningful use objectives in Stage 1 and directions for Stages 2/3
• What is and is not an ONC-certified electronic health record (EHR) and what it is expected to perform
• HITECH Meaningful Use and future public health functions

Standardization Required for Meaningful Use Implementation, Marty LaVenture

• Standardization of data and information for the purposes of interoperability and exchange
• EHR certification, testing of public health objectives, complete objective fulfillment,; and CMS/Medicaid attestation
• Standards: message, vocabulary and transport standards; the origins of standards cited in the ONC regulations, and common standards that might be used for meaningful use but that are not specified in the federal rule.
• Domains not standardized by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)-ONC that require local implementation guides

PHIN and Resources, Nedra Garrett & Roniqua Watkins

• PHIN governance structure and how public health stakeholders may participate
• PHIN and public health stakeholder participation in ONC Standards and Implementation Framework, Standards Development Organizations, Implementation Harmonization Frameworks (e.g., IHE)
• PHIN helpdesk and state, tribal, local, and territorial technical assistance staff Functions of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS)-compliant systems, other named case reporting systems, syndromic surveillance systems and immunization registries/immunization information systems at the local/state and federal level
• Relationships of systems and Meaningful Use objectives

Meaningful Use Adoption by Public Health and Monitoring, Jim Kirkwood and Jim Daniel

• Performance metrics and public health jurisdiction in the implementation of Meaningful Use
• Collection and use of performance metrics

Intended Audience

• PHIN Technical Assistance team
• Meaningful Use-ELR Incident Command Structure staff
• PHITPO managers and staff
• State/territorial/local Meaningful Use coordinators, ELR, immunization registry and syndromic surveillance managers
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response project officers and managers
• Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity CoAg Office of Infectious Diseasesproject officers and managers
• Public Health Performance Improvement Cooperative Agreement (Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support) project officers and managers

Content level

50% basic; 50% intermediate

* Designed Under CDC-AMIA Cooperative Agreement #000053