The March Interoperability Workgroup will include a presentation from Jody Denson, Project Manager with the Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN). Jody's presentation is entitled, 'Barriers to HIE for Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Patients."

LabCorp is embarking on a new consumer initiative that will offer direct access to lab testing in a thoughtful and compliant manner. Tom Kaminski, Vice President, Corporate Strategy, will discuss LabCorp's efforts and strategies to this truly disrupting and patient-empowering effort and share how one of the country's leading laboratory testing companies is approaching real world interoperability.

On the agenda for this month’s call is outreach to additional organizations along with next steps for requesting examples for inclusion in the Interactive Interoperability Resource Center.

This workgroup will continue to discuss real world challenges to interoperability and solutions to those challenges. We will focus on the following topics: *Hierarchy of consent management *Approaches to 42CFR Part 2 *Approaches to minors *Advance Directives *Managing patient preferences *Multiple consents for a single individual *Cross jurisdiction *Cross HIE

Our first Business & Clinical Motivators Workgroup of 2016 will include speakers Sam Ho, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of United Healthcare and John Glaser, PhD, Senior Vice President of Cerner. The presentation and discussion will cover trends in business and clinical motivators and the latest drivers for change in health information technology. We will also discuss the goals and objectives of the workgroup to set the stage for the coming year. Both Sam and John are eager to hear your ideas and discuss the exciting work to be accomplished in 2016.

The ability to collect and exchange health data is meaningless unless it is appropriately accessed and analyzed to inform clinical decisions about an individual’s condition and possible interventions. Data stored in disease registries and repositories create opportunities for us to develop a more refined healthcare consumer matching process, analyze and predict trends, and even make predictive assumptions about an individual and population.

Join us for the eHealth Initiative’s (eHI) November Policy Workgroup Webinar “Patient Matching: Insights from Policy Experts, Researchers and Implementers.”

INSTRUCTIONS TO PARTICIPATE
To participate in the call dial 1-866-740-1260 and enter the access code 6243271. To view the slides and interactive portion of the call, go to http://www.readytalk.com and enter the code 6243271 on the upper left menu under “participate in a meeting.”

The Interoperability Workgroup held its last meeting of 2015 to discuss the year's Final Report and look ahead at the scope of work for 2016.

The ability to collect and meaningful exchange health data is meaningfulness unless it is appropriately accessed and analyzed in order to form the best clinical decisions possible about an individual’s health and health treatment. Information from disease registries and other data repositories create opportunities for us to develop a more refined healthcare consumer matching process, analyze and predict trends, and even make predictive assumptions about an individual.

Elements of new models of care delivery, such as Accountable Care Organizations and Patient-Centered Medical Homes, bundled payment programs, as well as financial incentive programs like the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program and Meaningful Use will be reviewed to identify the means and motivation behind what works in the real-world setting when it comes to the adoption and utilization of health IT with both healthcare consumers and healthcare providers.