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Why should your health department implement an Electronic Health Record?
EHR technology can help advance key public health goals, such as surveillance, prevention and interoperability with health care organizations (providers, labs, pharmacies and HIEs). Public health agencies can streamline reporting and workflows and decrease the need to store medical records by going paperless. Public Health agencies using EHR can also notice a significant return on investment.
As stated by Public Health Informatics Institute – “Public health agencies have long recognized the need to more effectively integrate and exchange data with their community partners, and recent federal legislative health initiatives have made this integration a priority. There is a strong push among public health partners, such as clinicians’ offices, hospitals, etc., to implement Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, and many public health agencies are investigating whether they too should move in that direction as a way to support data exchange.”
In this session, attendees will gain a high-level understanding of:
- Discuss the necessity of implementing an EHR and the selection criteria for public health agencies
- Interoperability with state registries, Health Information Exchange (HIE) and other healthcare organizations
- Meaningful Use incentives for Local Health Department
- Local Health Department ICD-10 implementation
- Benchmarking and performance improvement process using EHR data
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadershipLearning Objectives:
Discuss the necessity of implementing an EHR and the selection criteria for public health agencies
Define interoperability and discuss it with state registries, Health Information Exchange (HIE) and other healthcare organizations
List the Meaningful Use incentives for Local Health Department
Discuss Local Health Department ICD-10 implementation
Demonstrate how Benchmarking and performance improvement processes can be used with EHR data
Keyword(s): Technology, Information Technology
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: The presentation is non product specific and is ONLY educational and will NOT promote any of Netsmart solutions/services.
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Lux Phatak joined Netsmart in February 2012 as a Public Health Strategist. Lux has more than 11 years’ Local Health Department experience as a Health Planner/Assessment Coordinator/MIS Manager. In 2007 Lux facilitated the MAPP process that is recommended by NACCHO for community health assessment at a LHD in Delaware, Ohio. She completed two terms as a member of the NACCHO MAPP workgroup. She is also trained as a public health accreditation site visitor for PHAB.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.