NAHDO Announcements

Free ICD-10 mapping tool! 

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have worked together to support the development and dissemination of a new, user-friendly mapping tool.  

"MapIT" takes a selected set of ICD-9-CM or ICD-10 codes, applies the CMS/NCHS General Equivalence Mapping, and then outputs a set of ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes and descriptions.  This tool uses both the forward and backward maps, in conjunction with reverse mapping as described in the GEMS technical specifications, to generate all possible matches for clinical review.  MapIT can be used on diagnosis codes, procedure codes, and external cause-of-injury codes.  The mapping tool provide a single lookup of desired ICD codes (or description) and a batch lookup using a text that contain a large volume of ICD codes. 

American Health Information Management Association and Cohasset Associates Launch Survey

This survey, Information Governance in Healthcare: Professional Readiness and Opportunity, focuses on understanding the evolving roles and responsibilities—as well as the background, skills and competencies—of those working in the healthcare industry, to advance IG.  Results will become a go-to source for insight into the IG roles evolving in healthcare.

Survey results will formulate a white paper to advance the knowledge of stakeholders on the readiness of the IG professional and the resulting opportunities. This document, which will complement the recently published white paper on the current state of IG in Healthcare, is to be released in the third quarter of 2015 and found on www.ahima.org. 

The State of New Hampshire has posted Request for Information (RFI) 2015-139 Uniform Health Facilities Discharge Data System.  The State seeks information about available solutions and may issue a Request for Proposal within the next twelve months depending upon the availability of funding. The  RFI can be accessed on the State’s purchasing web site: http://admin.state.nh.us/purchasing/bids_posteddte.asp?sort=PostedDate DESC

Questions may be addressed to Jerry Bardsley at jbardsley@dhhs.state.nh.us  or (603) 271-0548.

West Health Policy Center & APCD Council Launches "All-Payer Claims Database Development Manual: Establishing a Foundation for Health Care Transparency and Informed Decision Making"

PHDSC Source of Payment (SOP) Typology
Annual Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting
February 18, 2015, 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET

We Want Your Feedback by Friday, February 13, 2015

The Public Health Data Standards Council (PHDSC) Payer Typology Project under the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation will hold its annual Source of Payment Typology Coordination and Maintenance Meeting on Wednesday, February 18th from 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EST) / 10:00am-11:00am (PST) by conference call. This meeting provides an opportunity for interested parties to request changes or additions to the Source of Payment Typology.

An Accenture study of State Health Innovation Plans (SHIPs), released in late 2014, highlight the ability of APCDs to promote transparency as SHIP states move toward a more integrated healthcare system.From the study, "...55 percent of states with SHIP models are making investments in constructing or modifying all payer claims databases to provide access to more stakeholders. Washington uses claims data to identify costs, risk and outcomes for people receiving services across health and human services programs." APCD development has been identified as a top healthcare investment for states.
 

What Is Your Elevator Speech? Tips and Insights for Communicating With State Legislators

Click HERE to view January 20, 2015 Webinar Slides.

GHP Network invites you to the National Bundled Payments and Data Analytics Conference, to be convened 25-27 February 2015, Westin San Diego.

NAHDO serves as an advocate for state health data agencies and often communicates with state legislators about best practices and data system trends across states.  We recognize the unique challenges our members face when  translating complex technical data, privacy, and reporting  issues for budgetary hearings, sunset reviews, and before or after the release of high-profile public reports.  Legislative communication and outreach  is a continuous process, especially in 2015 with leadership positions shifting in many states.
 
Please join NAHDO for our free 2015 membership webinar: 

What Is Your Elevator Speech? Tips and Insights for Communicating With State Legislators.
 
WHEN: January 20, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. ET
 

The Environmental Health Tracking Branch’s first MMWR surveillance summary was released Friday, December 12, 2014.
 
Heat Stress Illness Hospitalizations — Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, 20 States, 2001–2010. MMWR Surveillance Summaries/Vol. 63/ No. 13.
 
For the first time, ten years of heat stress illness (HSI) hospitalizations data from Tracking states have been analyzed and reported to highlight trends over time.
 
Data were used from 20 of the 25 tracking grantee states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
 
Major findings: