CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grantand

Pennsylvania’s Early Intervention Strategies

David Kelley MD, MPHChief Medical Officer

Office of Medical Assistance Programs

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• Category B

• Creation of Electronic Screening Tools

The objective is to leverage HIT to maximize the early identification of children with the following medical conditions:

Developmental delay

Autism

ADHD, disruptive behavior, anxiety, and sadness in school-age children

Depression/suicide risk in adolescents

Maternal depression

Patients/families complete web-based assessments prior to their clinic visit

Assessments can be completed at home or in the clinic waiting room

Once the web-based assessment is complete, it is electronically scored and loaded into the patient’s EHR

CHOP and Geisinger to implement the screening tools at a combined total of 22 practice sites by 2013

Pennsylvania’s CHIPRA Grant

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• Category B

• Status of Electronic Screening Tools – no restriction based on payor

CHOP Postpartum Depression (Edinburgh PD Scale) at 2 month WCV: 869 women screened, 15% (129) positiveDevelopmental Delay (ASQ) at 9, 18, 24, 30 month WCVs: 3009 children screened, 17% (512) failedAutism (M-CHAT) at 18 and 24 month WCVs: 1727 children screened, 10% (173) failed the initial screening

Of these 173 children, 57% had M-CHAT Follow-Up questions documented

GeisingerDevelopmental Delay (PEDS) at 9, 18, 24, 30 month WCVs: 172 children screened, 31% (54) failedAutism (M-CHAT) at 18 and 24 month WCVs: 88 children screened, 5% (5) failed

• Children with Special Health Care Needs – projects in development

This portion of the grant focuses on coordination of care efforts for children with complex medical conditions by addressing continuity of care, medication management and care plan management

Pennsylvania’s CHIPRA Grant

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• Category B• Children with Special Health Care Needs

CHOP – Focus on transition of care from hospital to home

Geisinger – Focus on management/care coordination of children with hypertension

An electronic referral system will be developed which allows patients to be electronically referred with care plan feedback to the PCP/EHR

• Early Intervention

The CHIPRA grant plans to electronically link providers to DPW’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning’s web-based Pennsylvania’s Enterprise to Link Information Across Networks (PELICAN) Early Intervention (EI) system

PELICAN enables child serving social agencies, the education system and parents to develop and view care plans for children needing EI services

By bringing the medical providers into this community they will be able to participate in care plan development, share clinical information via PELICAN and the EHR, and have bi-directional communication with families and therapists

Pennsylvania’s CHIPRA Grant

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Pennsylvania’s Early Intervention Strategies

• Pennsylvania’s Early Intervention Strategies

Provide validated screening and diagnostic assessment to identify developmental delay, autism and social-emotional problems

Provide infants, toddlers and their families access to preventive, early intervention, and treatment services for those experiencing or at risk of social-emotional problems

Have mechanisms in place to track referrals, such as shared data bases, which track the enrollment of children into EI

Assist efforts to build infrastructure to support an array of early intervention services and to track the movement/progression of children once enrolled in EI

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Health Information Exchange StrategyUtilize HIE to improve the referral processAllow HIE to assist in “closing the loop” from referral tracking to care coordinationHIE offers the benefit of open communication between EI and physicians and the wider availability of care plans

Federal Level Health Information ExchangeDIRECT - secure email exchange that is a component of the Nationwide Health Information Network StrategyLeverage DIRECT to enable EI and medical providers to exchange care plans and other medical dataBring PELICAN to this externally facing HIE

Broad Statewide StrategyMA plans will measure rates for Developmental screening in the first three years of life for HEDIS 2013/CY 2012Focus on HIE to enable the plans to measure the developmental screening quality measure and to focus on “closing the loop”

Pennsylvania’s Early Intervention Strategies

• The Future: Utilization of the Health Information Exchange

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