Electronic Health Records: What Does The HITECH Act Teach Thailand?

Electronic Health Records:Electronic Health Records:

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Outline

• Electronic Health Records & Health IT

• HITECH Act

• Meaningful Use of EHRs

Lessons for Thailand• Lessons for Thailand

Electronic

H lth R dHealth Records

The Challenge - Knowing What It Means

Electronic Medical Computer-Based

Patient Records Electronic Medical

Records (EMRs)Patient Records

(CPRs)

Electronic Patient

Records (EPRs)Electronic Health

Records (EHRs)Records (EHRs) Personal Health

Records (PHRs)

Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

• Electronic documentation of patient care by providers

• Sometimes defined as a patient’s life-long records

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems

• Are they just electronic documentation?

Diag-nosis

History & PE

Treat-ments ...nosis& PE ments

• Or do they have some other values?

Common “Goals” for Adoption“Computerize”“Go paperless”

“Di it l H it l”“Get a HIS”

“Digital Hospital”

“Modernize”“Have EMRs”

“Sh d t ”“Share data”

Benefits of Health Information Technology

• Literature suggests improvement in health care through

– Guideline adherence (Shiffman et al, 1999;Chaudhry et al, 2006)

– Better documentation (Shiffman et al, 1999)

– Practitioner decision making or process of care (Balas et al, 1996;Kaushal et al, 2003;Garg et al, 2005)

– Medication safety (Kaushal et al, 2003;Chaudhry et al, 2006;van Rosse et al, 2009)

– Patient surveillance & monitoring (Chaudhry et al, 2006)

– Patient education/reminder (Balas et al, 1996)

– Cost savings and better financial performance Cost savings and better financial performance (Parente & Dunbar, 2001;Chaudhry et al, 2006;Amarasingham et al, 2009;Borzekowski, 2009)

Functions that Should be Part of EHR Systems

• Computerized Medication Order Entry (IOM, 2003; Blumenthal et al, 2006)

C t i d L b t O d E t • Computerized Laboratory Order Entry (IOM, 2003)

• Computerized Laboratory Results (IOM, 2003)

Ph i i N t • Physician Notes (IOM, 2003)

• Patient Demographics (Blumenthal et al, 2006)

P bl Li t • Problem Lists (Blumenthal et al, 2006)

• Medication Lists (Blumenthal et al, 2006)

Di h S i • Discharge Summaries (Blumenthal et al, 2006)

• Diagnostic Test Results (Blumenthal et al, 2006)

R di l i R t • Radiologic Reports (Blumenthal et al, 2006)

The Bigger Picture: Health Information Exchange

G t

Hospital A Hospital B

Government

p

Clinic CClinic CLab Patient at Home

Common Denominator

• Health Information TechnologyHealth Information Technology

• Electronic Health Records• Electronic Health Records

• Health Information Exchange• Health Information Exchange

Ultimate Goal = Health

• Don’t implement technology just for technology’s sake.(Yasnoff et al, 2001 and many others)

• “Don’t make use of excellent technology.

Make excellent use of technology.”(Tangwongsan, Supachai. Personal communication, 2005.)

U.S. Adoption of Health ITAmbulatory (Hsiao et al, 2009) Hospitals (Jha et al, 2009)

Basic EHRs w/ notes 7.6%

Comprehensive EHRs 1 5%Comprehensive EHRs 1.5%

CPOE 17%

U S l b hi d th W t t i • U.S. lags behind other Western countries (Schoen et al, 2006;Jha et al, 2008)

• Money and misalignment of benefits is the biggest reason

็“อเมริกาเขม้แขง็”

(ARRA/HITECH A t)(ARRA/HITECH Act)

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act

• Contains HITECH Act (Health Information Technology for

Economic and Clinical Health Act)

• ~ 20 billion dollars for Health IT investments

Goals:Goals:

1. Boost economy (economic health)

2 Widespread adoption of Health IT (clinical health)2. Widespread adoption of Health IT (clinical health)

Quality Patient Safety Costs

National Leadership

• Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology (ONC -- formerly ONCHIT)

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP

National Coordinator for National Coordinator for

Health Information Technology

(2009 - Present)(2009 Present)

Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Blumenthal D. Launching HITECH. N Engl J Med. 2010 Feb 4;362(5):382-5.

“Meaningful Use”Meaningful Use

“Meaningful Use” of A Pumpkin

“Meaningful Use”

of a PumpkinPumpkin

of a Pumpkin

Image Source & Idea Courtesy of Pat Wise at HIMSS, Oct. 2009

Meaningful Use of EHRs: ONC’s 3-Stage Approach

Stage 1

- Electronic capture of

health information

Better

Healthhealth information

- Information sharing

- Data reportingStage 2

Stage 3

Use of

Health

pUse of EHRs

to improve

processes of

EHRs to

improve

outcomesprocesses of

care

outcomes

Blumenthal D, 2010

Components of Meaningful Use Regulations

• Medicare & Medicaid Incentives for Meaningful Use of EHRs– Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

• Rule on Standards, Implementation Specifications &

Certification Criteria

• Certification Programsg– Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)

Meaningful Use Incentives: Stage 1

Proposed Rule

• 23 Criteria for Hospitals to Pass

25 Criteria for Professionals (Clinics) to PassProposed Rule

(Jan. 2010)• 25 Criteria for Professionals (Clinics) to Pass

Public Hearing

• Pace & Scope: too ambitious, demanding, inflexible

• Few providers would likely qualify -> Little adoptiong

C Obj ti (15 it i i d)

Final Rule

• Core Objectives (15 criteria, required)

• Menu Set (10 criteria, pick 5)

Blumenthal D, Tavenner M. The “meaningful use” regulation for electronic health records. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(6):501-4.

Blumenthal D, Tavenner M. The “meaningful use” regulation for electronic health records. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(6):501-4.

Blumenthal D, Tavenner M. The “meaningful use” regulation for electronic health records. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(6):501-4.

Blumenthal D, Tavenner M. The “meaningful use” regulation for electronic health records. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(6):501-4.

Blumenthal D, Tavenner M. The “meaningful use” regulation for electronic health records. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(6):501-4.

Meaningful Use Final Rule: Core Objectives (Selected)

• Electronic capture of information– DemographicsDemographics

– Vital signs

– Medication listMedication list

– Allergies

– Problem listProblem list

– Smoking

• Medication order entry• Medication order entry

• Drug-allergy & drug-drug interaction checks

P ti t t / f h lth i f ti• Patient access to/copy of health information

Meaningful Use Final Rule: Menu Set (Selected)

• Drug formulary checks

• Lab results incorporation into EHRs• Lab results incorporation into EHRs

• Generate lists of patients by specific conditions

M di ti ili ti• Medication reconciliation

• Electronic reporting to governmental agencies

• Advanced directives for elderly patients

• Patient reminders for certain services (for clinics)

• Patient access to health information (for clinics)

Final Rule on Standards & Certification Criteria (Selected)

• Content Exchange Standards– HL7 CDA Release 2 & CCDHL7 CDA Release 2 & CCD

– NCPDP SCRIPT

• Vocabularies• Vocabularies• SNOMED CT

LOINC®– LOINC

– RxNorm ®

• Security• Security– NIST-certified encryption algorithms

Et• Etc.

Critique:q

L f Th il dLessons for Thailand

Disclaimer: Personal opinions. Supporting scientific evidence may not be available.

Lesson #1

Clear aim toward improved quality & Clear aim toward improved quality &

efficiency of health careefficiency of health care.

Lesson #2

Large health IT initiatives require Large health IT initiatives require

leadership from the highest levelleadership from the highest level

of governmentof government.

Lesson #3

To achieve widespread health IT To achieve widespread health IT

adoption substantial financial adoption, substantial financial

investment is necessaryinvestment is necessary.

Lesson #4

Leadership from a national Leadership from a national

organization with health informatics organization with health informatics

expertise is vital to successexpertise is vital to success.

Lesson #5

Criteria for “Meaningful Use” should Criteria for Meaningful Use should

be evidence based be evidence-based

to the extent possibleto the extent possible.

Lesson #6

Criteria for incentives should be Criteria for incentives should be

realistic and flexiblerealistic and flexible.

Lesson #7

Criteria for incentives should be Criteria for incentives should be

evolutionaryevolutionary.

Lesson #8

Accept local diversity in technologies Accept local diversity in technologies

& requirements & requirements.

Don’t aim for homogeneous Don t aim for homogeneous

environmentenvironment.

Lesson #9

Leverage existing standards Leverage existing standards

to the extent possibleto the extent possible.

Don’t reinvent the wheelDon t reinvent the wheel.

Lesson #10

Acknowledge that more than one Acknowledge that more than one

level of interoperability needs to be level of interoperability needs to be

achievedachieved.

Take Home Message

• Adoption of health IT still work in progress, even

in developed countriesin developed countries

• We can learn something from other countries

• We need to do something, soon.

• Don’t forget to build the workforce!!• Don t forget to build the workforce!!

Useful Online Resources• healthit.hhs.gov

• www.himss.org/EconomicStimulus/

• www.amia.org/public-policy/testimony-www.amia.org/public policy/testimony

comments-reports

• www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0912825

• www nejm org/doi/full/10 1056/NEJMp1006114• www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1006114

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