NAHDO Announcements

ONC Approves Big Data Report

On August 11th, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) approved the privacy and security health big data report of the Privacy and Security Workgroup (PSWG). The PSWG focused its efforts on identifying potential gaps in privacy and security protections given prevailing frameworks. The workgroup also examined the degree to which existing laws and regulations facilitate an environment that enables information to be “leveraged for good” while still protecting individual’s privacy interests or protecting against discrimination.

The report can be viewed at
https://www.healthit.gov/sites/faca/files/HITPC_Health_Big_Data_Report_FINAL.pdf

MedInsight Showcase

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Drill-Down Feature Simplifies your Analysis

The Ad Hoc Analysis tool within the MedInsight Analytics Platform, in addition to providing access to hundreds of enrollment and claims dimensions, has extensive drill down capabilities. The illustration below provides just one example of how the Ad Hoc Analysis tool can be used to identify trends and variations in Virginia APCD data with just a few clicks.

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SAS Tool to Support ICD-9/10 Transition

Are you ready for this transition?

The adoption of ICD-10-CM/PCS is effective October 1, 2015 for medical claims. Public health programs that obtain data from multiple data sources may receive data in overlapping time periods without clear indication of which coding scheme (ICD-9 or ICD-10) was used. Some data reporting entities are not covered by HIPAA and may not switch to ICD-10-CM on 10/1/2015 and some data reporting entities may choose to implement ICD-10-CM before 10/1/2015, given no prohibition against doing so.

To help programs and data users identify which coding scheme is used, the University of California at Davis (UCD) developed a SAS program.

Join us for this free webinar on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 2:00 PM EDT (12 PM MDT).

Price transparency, care data policies launched by American Medical Society

The American Medical Association passed two new policies at its annual meeting on Tuesday that encourage physicians to offer more price transparency and improve the quality of patient care data.

The policies also ensure physicians have access to information to help them foster more medical innovation and to enable new delivery and payment models, according to the AMA.

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