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1 August 10, 2012 SUBSCRIBE MEMBERSHIP HIMSS PUBLIC POLICY Welcome to HIMSS Health IT Policy Update, bringing you the latest news on legislative and regulatory activities related to health IT from HIMSS Government Relations office. We welcome your feedback, and if you re reading this complimentary newsletter online or receiving it as a forward, please subscribe! National Health IT Week 2012 Congressional Asks Announced The Annual HIMSS Policy Summit provides an opportunity for HIMSS members and others to learn about current health information technology public policy issues and meet with Members of Congress and their staff to raise awareness of important issues concerning health IT policy. Each year, a task force of HIMSS member volunteers develops Congressional Asks, which are then approved by HIMSS Public Policy Committee and reviewed by the HIMSS Board of Directors. These Asks are the essential messages presented to Congress during the annual HIMSS Public Policy Summit Day on the Hill, and provide talking points used by HIMSS throughout the year. Click the link above to review this year s HIMSS Congressional Asks which Policy Summit participants will communicate to Congress on September 13th. Hotel Block for HIMSS Policy Summit Closes Monday! Join HIMSS in Washington, D.C. on September for the 11th Annual Policy Summit. Completing your registration as far in advance as possible greatly assists HIMSS staff as we arrange Congressional appointments for each Policy Summit attendee. Register NOW to take advantage of early bird rates, which END TODAY, August 10th. And don t forget to book your hotel! The HIMSS room block at the Hyatt Capitol Hill closes this Monday, August 13th. Policy Summit attendees will become more informed about health IT policy issues during the educational session on Wednesday, September 12, before joining other health IT stakeholders for the National Health IT Week Networking and Awards Reception. Following a lively policy discussion at breakfast and meetings with their Congressional representatives on September 13, Summit attendees are invited to the Institute for e-health Policy s Health IT Technology Showcase and the National Health IT Week Capitol Hill press conference. Join Nursing Informatics on the Hill HIMSS, in collaboration with the American Nurses Association and the 30 members of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, want your voice! Join us on The Hill as share our stories of how nurses and nursing informatics are advancing better care, affordable care and healthier communities. Register Public Policy Event Calendar ONC Federal Advisory Committees Calendar CONNECT Code-A-Thon George Mason University, Fairfax VA August 16-17, 2012 HRSA Webinar: "Overview of Telehealth Resources for Safety Net Providers" August 17, 2012 AHRQ 2012 Annual Conference September 9-12, 2012 National Health IT Week September 10-14, 2012 ONC Consumer Health IT Summit - Expanding Access to Health Information Registration information available soon Washington, DC September 10, 2012 HIMSS 11th Annual Policy Summit Washington, DC September 12-13, 2012 Institute for e-health Policy Health Information Technology Showcase Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902, Washington, DC September 13, 2012 HIMSS Oregon Chapter event: Coordinated Care Organizations ~ Where Oregon is Now Portland, OR September 13, 2012 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Institute Baylor Medical Center, Irving TX September 28, 2012 OSEHRA Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop October 17-18, 2012
2 for Nursing Informatics on the Hill (complimentary) at the headline link above. This event will take place Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, at 10 a.m. (ET) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. For more information, contact Jennifer Roniger. ONC Announces Consumer Health IT Summit During National Health IT Week The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has announced that it will host the 2012 Consumer Health IT Summit at HHS headquarters in Washington DC on September 10th, the first day of National Health IT Week. ONC says that Last year 1,400 people tuned in to the Consumer Health IT Summit to hear about new public and private sector efforts to make health information more easily available to consumers and to engage them in using their data to improve their care and well being. This year s event will feature remarks from Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and announcements about new policies and federal initiatives. Registration details will be available soon. Congressional Affairs Obama Signs Comprehensive Veterans Bill into Law; Includes Telemedicine Earlier this week, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1627, the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of Of particular interest to the health IT community, the bill contains language that encourages expanded use of telehealth to improve the healthcare delivery system for veterans. Click the link above to learn more. GAO Reports on Characteristics of Providers Receiving Incentives in 2011 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a report on providers that participated during the first year of the Medicare EHR program. Among the findings highlighted in Number and Characteristics of Providers Awarded Medicare Incentive Payments for 2011, the largest proportion of Eligible Hospitals receiving incentive payments in 2011 were located in the South, and the lowest proportion were located in the Northeast. In addition, Eligible Professionals who had previously participated in CMS s electronic prescribing program were almost 4 times more likely to have been awarded an incentive payment than those who had not participated in the electronic prescribing program, and professionals who had signed an agreement to receive technical assistance from a Regional Extension Center were more than twice as likely to have been awarded an incentive payment. Click the link above for additional highlights and to access the full report. Federal Affairs ICD-10 Compliance Delay Rule In Review by OMB The final rule for Administrative Simplification: Standard Unique Identifier for Health Plans and ICD-10 Compliance Date Delay was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review on August 8th, usually the final step before publication in the Federal Register. OMB has up to 90 days to review the rule. HHS Issues Administrative Simplification Rule Today, the Department of Health & Human Services has published a new interim final rule in the Federal Register Administrative Simplification: Adoption of Operating Rules for Health Care Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT) 2012 Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit Sponsored by HHS, NIMHD, NIH, OMH October 31 November 3, mhealth Summit Early registration rates end August 31st December 3-5, 2012 IOM Workshop: Core Metrics for Better Care, Lower Costs, and Better Health Irvine, CA December 5-6, 2012 The Privacy & Security Forum Presented by Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Boston, MA December 12-13, Connectathon January 28 February 2, 2013 HIMSS13 Conference & Exhibition New Orleans March 3-7, 2013 Renew Your HIMSS Membership? Ensure the continuation of your HIMSS member benefits, login to the Member Center to renew your membership today. If you need a paper invoice, request one via to the Member Services department. You can also renew by phone at (option 8, then 2). Networking LinkedIn Discussions Participating in these discussions is easy. Simply become a member of our HIMSS Linkedin Group, which is free and open for anyone to join.
3 and Remittance Advice Transactions According to a press release, In combination with a previously issued regulation, the rule will save up to $9 billion over the next ten years. The regulation adopts operating rules for making health care claim payments electronically and describing adjustments to claim payments. The rule released today is effective immediately. The comment period closes on Oct. 9, The compliance date for operating rules for the health care electronic funds transfers and remittance advice transaction is Jan. 1, Click the link above for details, including access to an HHS fact sheet with technical information on the rule. Connect with HIMSS Expand your network by connecting to HIMSS on these social media sites: SAMHSA Announces Funding for Health IT The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced more than $4 million in new grants for health IT in six communities across the nation. A press release explains, The use of HIT, including web-based services, smart phones, and behavioral health electronic applications (e-apps), will expand and/or enhance the ability of providers to effectively communicate with persons in treatment and to track and manage their health to ensure treatment and services are available where and when needed. Grantees will use technology that will support recovery and resiliency efforts and promote wellness. Click the link for additional details. Department of Defense (DoD)/Veteran's Administration (VA) Interagency Program Office (IPO) Release RFI on iehr Joint Immunization Capability The iehr Joint Immunization Capability Request for Information (RFI), issued by the DOD/Veteran's Administration (VA) Interagency Program Office (IPO), is seeking potential vendor solutions and approaches on how to acquire a shared capability to document, monitor, forecast, and report immunization information for DOD and VA beneficiaries. Specifically, the IPO is requesting market information on proposed approaches on shared capability to document, monitor, forecast, and report immunization information for DOD and VA beneficiaries. Responses to the RFI are due August 22, Click the link above for more. New ONC Consumer Video Focuses on Health IT Benefits A new animated video from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) explains the benefits of widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). This new video is one of several efforts by ONC s newly created Office of Consumer ehealth to help convey the benefits of health IT and other consumer e-health tools to spur patients and families to ask for electronic access to their health record, and to use technology to better manage their own health or that of a loved one. The video will be available in Spanish next month. Click the link above to view the video, available in 3-minute and 1-minute versions. Released and Anticipated Regulations for 2012 Several Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) have been released and more are anticipated to come from CMS and ONC in coming months. This chart is regularly updated to outline the regulations, the agency from which they will be administered, and the date by which public comments are due to the government. Also included is the anticipated timeframe for release of final rules. For more information, please send a message to policy@himss.org. State Affairs Massachusetts Moves Forward With Statewide HIE Massachusetts announced it is moving forward with its statewide Health Information Exchange, utilizing a $16.9 million dollar federal grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This exchange will serve as a statewide health care information highway, that will connect every payer, provider, and patient to a single technology backbone, said Secretary of
4 Health and Human Services Dr. JudyAnn Bigby. This will create the infrastructure providers and hospitals need to move towards a more integrated, global model of care. Click the link for more. HIMSS News Attend the Privacy & Security Forum in Boston Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Media, the industry s leading sources for news and leadership in healthcare information technology, have joined forces to create The Privacy & Security Forum, to be held Dec , in Boston. Click the link in the headline above to read the rest of the story. Registration Now Open for the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Institute hosted by Baylor Health Care System Registration is now open for the Sept. 28 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Institute at Baylor Medical Center in Irving, Texas. Learn from the nation's leaders in Nursing Informatics at this one-day educational event. Build on your career portfolio and enhance your knowledge of the role of nurses in implementing information technology to enhance nursing workflow, promote patient safety and yield outcomes that improve patient care. For more information and to register, please visit: Seeking Volunteers for Launching Interoperability, Standards & Information Exchange enewsletter HIMSS is seeking volunteers in FY13 to serve as authors, content experts, contributors, and editorial board members for a new monthly enewsletter that will focus on interoperability and standards leading to health information exchange, and is scheduled to launch in October In addition to article submissions and review, additional responsibilities of team members will include identifying guest authors outside the team, as well as monitoring the newsletter performance scorecard. The time commitment involved will include an initial strategy and planning session, a monthly teleconference with HIMSS staff and other team members, and your own publication responsibilities each month. This team will be a joint effort under the auspices of the HIE Committee and the newly forming Interoperability & Standards (I&S) Committee. Please Mary-Ellen Devitt Johnson by Friday, Aug. 17. Health IT Policy Update is a weekly online newsletter published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Copyright 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission. Contact HIMSS Publications at 33 West Monroe Street, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL ; nvitucci@himss.org HIMSS Office of Government Relations David W. Roberts, MPA, FHIMSS Vice President, Government Relations droberts@himss.org, Follow Dave Roberts on For information on Health IT Policy Update Elinore Boeke Sr. Manager, Public Policy Communications, HIMSS eboeke@himss.org, Advertising inquiries Randy Knotts
5 The inclusion of an organization name, product or service in this publication should not be construed as a HIMSS endorsement of such organization, product or service, nor is the failure to include an organization name, product or service to be construed as disapproval. You have received this because you are opted-in to receive the Health IT Policy Update enewsletter. Want to control your from HIMSS? Update your profile or unsubscribe from s. If you have any questions or problems please contact us at techsupport@himss.org. 33 West Monroe Street, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL
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