Health Information Technology Council 
Meeting
June 6, 2016

•	Welcome  [5 minutes] – Alice Moore
•	Introductions
•	Approval of April 4, 2016 Meeting Notes
•	HIway Regulations: Opt-In & Opt-Out Mechanism  [15 minutes] –  Sharon Boyle & Gary Sing 
•	HIway Regulations: Connecting to the HIway  [45 minutes] – Sharon Boyle & Gary Sing
•	Massachusetts eHealth Institute Operating Plan Overview [20 minutes] – Laurance Stuntz
•	Conclusion  [5 minutes] – Alice Moore  
•	Next Steps
•	2016 Schedule

Appendix A:  M.G.L. Chapter 118I references
Appendix B:  HIway Operations Update

HIway Regulations: Opt-In & Opt-Out Mechanism
Sharon Boyle, Gary Sing
Background

Proposed opt-in/opt-out mechanism
Proposed opt-in/opt-out mechanism
(continued)

HIway Regulations: Connecting to the HIway
Sharon Boyle, Gary Sing
Background 
Three key questions about connecting

MeHI Operating Plan Overview
Laurance Stuntz
DRAFT FY17 Operating Plan Overview
Health Information Technology Council
June 6th, 2016
Strategic Context and Positioning
•	Initiate
–	Consumer Engagement
•	Grow / Invest
–	Digital Health Cluster Development
•	Maintain
–	Connected Communities
–	eHealth eQuality
–	Medicaid Meaningful Use
•	Diminish / Divest
–	eHealth Services
–	Regional Extension Center (Federal Grant)
Operating Plan Design Principles and Themes
•	Initiatives
–	Remain in the context of the June 2014 Strategic Plan
–	Focus on Digital Health Cluster Development
–	Transition hands-on direct support model to broad-based support and education
•	Financial
–	Plan for resources to last through FY18
–	Propose plans for eQIP budgeted balance
•	BH Integration and Data Sharing
•	Sharing of Advanced Directives
Digital Health Initiative – Strategic Framework
Digital Health Initiative 
•	Digital Health Marketplace Program
–	Matchmaking the top priority/need/problem areas for healthcare organizations (providers, payers and pharmacies) with solutions from startups. 
–	Streamlines technology selection and adoption for the healthcare organizations, improves customer/market access for startups and provides a de-risking mechanism for investors.
•	Digital Health Hub & Cluster Convening 
–	Regular cluster networking events at PULSE@MassChallenge
–	Monthly/Quarterly mentoring, early validation (feedback for early stage startups) events; speaker series. 
–	Digital Health Learning Series – Helping tech entrepreneurs prepare for Healthcare startups. 
–	Continue to grow content on massdigitalhealth.org and leverage it to drive participation in other programs. 
•	Health Data Initiative
–	Create greater access to public sector healthcare data to enable Digital Health entrepreneurs and academia to drive new insights, products and solutions. 
–	Provide access by publishing the datasets or through targeted data challenges. 
–	Expand over time to private-sector data.
Connected Communities
•	Communities Grants award and management - $3.5M, 8 Grants
–	Collaboration among community organizations to use Health IT to improve cross-setting care management
–	Grants will run through most of FY18
•	Consumer Engagement
–	Focusing research and programmatic development on caregivers
–	Need to better understand caregivers needs and opportunities to use technology to support their efforts
•	Vendor Engagement
–	Develop HISP Directory of providers across the state
–	Match providers with potential vendor solutions
–	Coordinate activities between various government agencies in an effort to improve vendor interactions	
eHealth eQuality 
•	eQuality Incentive Program (eQIP)
–	Ongoing support for 39 BH & LTPAC grantees with 211 facilities
•	EHR Planning and Procurement Toolkit
–	Assist with additional EHR/HIT use and needs surveys
–	Add toolkit content around consent process
–	Extend conversations to other LTPAC settings (Home Health and Assisted Living)
•	Behavioral Health Data Sharing workgroup
–	Focus on automating high cost reporting workflows
–	Starting with CBHI
–	Coordinated with HPC, ABH and others
•	Behavioral Health integration demonstration project
–	Coordinated with the DMH/SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers Initiative
•	Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care support
–	Work with stakeholders to design and pilot the infrastructure to ensure providers have reliable access to patients’ care requests
Education and Outreach
•	Learning Collaboratives
–	Time-bound and topic specific
•	E.g. 1 year, “Technology and Issues related to Behavioral Health Integration”
–	Supported by MeHI with Subject Matter Experts
–	Output must include best practices, checklists, educational content
–	Plan to support 2 in FY17
•	Webinars and Regional Meetings
–	Focus on educational topics that need to reach the broad provider community
–	E.g., Incentive Program, HIway, MACRA, ACO regulations
–	Partner with other state agencies to deliver their content
Medicaid Meaningful Use Incentive Application Program
•	Support Management and Operations of the program
•	Increase assistance to applicants
•	Working with MassHealth on continuing to streamline internal operations, e.g., clarity in documentation requirements for providers
•	Contract renewal is agreed in principle, starts with the new fiscal year

Conclusion 
Alice Moore

Thank you!

Appendix A:  M.G.L. Chapter 118I references

Appendix B:  HIway Operations Update
HIway Transaction Activity
HIway Transaction Analysis
Customer Status Dashboard
               HIway Participation Mar 21 – May 20
•	Cape Cod Dermatology
•	Children's Health Care
•	Cohasset Pediatrics 
•	Community VNA
•	Execute Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA)
•	Gilchrist, Mark G MD, LLC.
•	Hallmark Health Medical Associates
•	Health & Social Services Consortium (HESSCO)
•	Heywood Pediatrics
•	Old Colony YMCA
•	Pediatrics at 1180
•	Pulmonary Critical Care & Allergy Assoc, Inc.

•	Community VNA
•	Execute Office of Elder Affairs
•	Gilchrist, Mark G. MD, LLC.
•	Hallmark Health Medical Associates
•	Health & Social Services Consortium (HESSCO)
•	Heywood Pediatrics
•	Ludlow Medical Center
(Gino Mercandante, MD, PC)
•	Marion Pediatrics
•	Old Colony YMCA
•	Pediatrics at 1180
•	Pulmonary Critical Care & Allergy Assoc, Inc.
•	South Shore Dermatology Physicians PC

HISP to HISP Connectivity