MONDAY, 3:30 – 3:50 PM

Bryant T. Karras, MD, Public Health Informatics Officer, Sr Epidemiologist, State of Washington, Department of Health

Rebecca A. Hills, MSPH, University of Washington

Public Health: Case-Reporting, Biosurveillence, and Immunization Tracking

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Meaningful Use to Improve Population and Public Health (3 of the 27 CMS objectives and measures)

• Hospital Capability to provide electronic submission of reportable lab results, as required by state or local law, to public health agencies and actual submission where it can be received

• Capability to provide electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies and actual transmission according to applicable law and practice

• Capability to submit electronic data to immunization registries and actual submission where required and accepted

Source Office of E-Health Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

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Population and Public Health Scenarios Demonstrated

Case Reporting and Decision Support

Biosurveillance

Immunization

Introduction

» The HIE project» Washington State DOH, CDC, INHS» This presentation

• Public Health’s role in Health Information Exchange (HIE)• Meaningful Use and Public Health• The scenarios demonstrated in the Interoperability Showcase

• Case Reporting and Decision Support• Biosurveillance• Immunization

» Meaningful use as demonstrated in these scenarios

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Public Health – 10 Essential Services

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1. Monitor

2. Diagnose and investigate

3. Inform, educate

4. Mobilize

5. Develop policies and plans

6. Enforce

7. Link

8. Assure

9. Evaluate

10. Research

Meaningful Use

• Through provisions of ARRA there will be incentives for “meaningful use”

• Meaningful use of EHR technology will improve health care quality, efficiency and patient safety.

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Public Health and Meaningful Use

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• How can public health leverage electronic information?

• Many of the meaningful use criteria are related to public health functions

• These demos show examples of how public health can leverage electronic information

The HIE Project and the Interoperability Showcase

• HITSP identifies existing standards

• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)– Incorporates HITSP standards into

interoperability profiles

• Interoperability Showcase

• WA participating since 2006

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Population and Public Health Scenarios Demonstrated

Case Reporting and Decision Support

Biosurveillance

Immunization

Case Reporting and Decision Support

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» The story - Patient with influenza-like-illness visits provider, case is reported to public health, decision support is offered

» Standards used (RFD, CCD, Xforms)» Facilitates communication between PH and provider» Meaningful use

• Record demographics, medications, vital signs• Capability to provide electronic submission of reportable lab to

public health agencies• Implement clinical decision support rules

Case Reporting and Decision Support

• For 2011 MU requirements limited to electronic submission of reportable labresults to public health agencies

• By 2013 and 2015 will include more interactive public health alerts and ultimately more sophisticated epidemiological uses of the data including automated real-time adverse event reporting, disease outbreaks, and bioterrorism response.

• Bi-directional communication (Brian Dixon from Regenstrief will present on this in detail - 12:30 Tuesday)

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Population and Public Health Scenarios Demonstrated

Case Reporting and Decision Support

Biosurveillance

Immunization

Biosurveillance

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• The story – patient with ILI symptoms visits PCP, lab is ordered and results recorded in the HIE’s registry and repository

• The standards used (XDS document sharing)• PH query developed to identification of results

of interest to public health• Meaningful use

– Capability to provide electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health agencies and actual transmission according to applicable law and practice.

– Electronically record, store, receive and manage laboratory orders

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International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS)National Level – Distribute

age-specific (TERS) Temporal Epidemic Response Surface plots

BiosurveillanceAdding a regional level HIE doubled our surveillance area

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Original Surveillance

Combined WA Biosurveillance Coverage

New INHSRate

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Population and Public Health Scenarios Demonstrated

Case Reporting and Decision Support

Biosurveillance

Immunization

Immunization

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» The Story • A parent accesses her child’s immunization record

using a PHR, and sees the same data as the PCP• The Immunization Information System (IIS/Registry)

is updated when messages from EHR systems are sent to the HIE registry repository, and are transformed to HL7 2.X messages

• Public health accesses the IIS for individual and population views of the data

» The standards and profiles used• Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (Immunization Content)• Patient Demographic Query

Immunization – Meaningful Use

Meaningful Use» Improve Population & Public Health

• Capability to submit electronic data to immunization registries and actual submission where required and accepted

• Demonstrates two types of immunization content submission to IIS ( HL7 2.5 and XDS-MS, IC )

» Engage patients and families in their health care• Provide patients with electronic copies of their health

information» Improve Care Coordination

• Capability to exchange key clinical information

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Population and Public Health Scenarios Demonstrated

Case Reporting and Decision Support

Biosurveillance

Immunization

Demonstrating Meaningful use of EHR

• Often more than one way to satisfy these criteria depending on states

• Important to examine the way work is done now and how workflow will change if these data are made available

• Public Health systems designed to leverage EHR data will also need to comply with standards

• We have learned much and continue to learn from our demonstration and pilot projects in Washington State

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Thank You

• CDC Funding

• Thanks– Bill Lober, Debra Revere (University of Washington)– David Dobbs (Contractor)– Charley Magruder (CDC)

• Contact Information– Bryant T. Karras MD - Bryant.Karras@DOH.WA.GOV– Rebecca Hills - hillsr@uw.edu

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References

• Hills RA, Lober WB, Painter IS. Biosurveillance, Case Reporting, and Decision Support: Public Health Interactions with a Health Information Exchange. Lect Notes Comput Sci. Biosecure. 5354, pp 10-21, 2008.

• Close N, Lofy K, Sandifer T, Lowe P, Karras BT. Utilization of Washington State’s Public Health Emerging Event Detection System (PHEEDS) for 2009 H1N1 Surveillance. ISDS conference, 2009

*Participate the population health focused tours offered at the Showcase!

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Thank You

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does not represent an endorsement by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Federal

Health Architecture or the Department of Health and Human Services.