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Project Overview
August 2005 - MedsInfo-ED Final Report completed
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Vision
The vision of MedsInfo-ED is to be the first in the country to
deliver real-time patient prescription medication history from
multiple data sources to emergency department physicians.
Philosophy
The philosophy of MedsInfo-ED is based on the following approach:
- Leverage Consortium resources to assure community-wide, collaborative
participation
- Begin with "Proof of Concept" Pilot to show value
and feasibility of a community-wide clinical data exchange
- Focus on patient safety and quality improvement
- Employ an open technology model for all development
- Evaluate Pilot results
- Develop plan for state-wide roll out, based on a sustainable
business model
Sponsor
Alliance for Health Care Improvement-A quality collaborative of
the six Massachusetts-based Health Plans
MedsInfo-ED is a patient safety initiative to automate the transmission
and communication of medication history to emergency departments.
Endorsed by MA-SHARE's Advisory Committee on September 29, 2003,
the Project is a "proof of concept", designed to demonstrate
the value of making patient medication history accessible to clinicians
at the time of treatment. MedsInfo-ED is challenged to:
- Develop a search mechanism to identify patients
- Contract for access to multiple sources of dispensed drug history,
including PBMs, health plans, and employers
- Aggregate medications history from multiple data sources
- Organize and present data on demand to clinicians at the point
of care
- Gain community consensus on required privacy and security requirements
related to transmission of PHI; create standards and audit performance
- Utilize cost-effective, extensible technology
MedsInfo-ED goals fit well with MA-SHARE goals for community-wide
clinical data exchange:
- Improve patient safety by limiting circumstances that may lead
to medical errors
- Improve efficiency of ED staff, as they collect and verify
patient prescription history
- Improve communications among caregivers
- Promote standards' based, open-architecture
Activities to date
2005
2004
- November 2004 - MassHeatlh interface and connection completed
- November 2004 - "Clinical go live" at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center
- October 2004 - Consortium Announces the Launch of MedsInfo-ED: "New
Patient Prescription Safety Tool Brings Electronic Health Information
Exchange to Area Hospitals" -- View the Press
Release
- October 2004 - Emerson Hospital and Boston Medical Center "clinical
go live" - link to "Emerson
Hospital Facts About MedsInfo - A Patient Safety Program"
- October 2004 - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston Medical
Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center interface and
connection completed
- September 2004 - Emerson Hospital validates production release
of MedsInfo Application
- September 2004 -Tufts Health Plan, BCBSMA and NHP member medication
history connection in place, through RxHub
- August 2004 - Contracting complete with Pilot Hospitals, Data
Sources and Technology vendors
- July 2004 - Awarded one of nine contracts sponsored by The Foundation for eHealth Initiative through its Connecting
Communities for Better Health (CCBH) program to support
community initiatives in electronic health information exchange.
-- View the Press
Release
- July 2004 - Privacy and Security Workgroup approved design
of technical Application user interface and administrative specifications
- May 2004 - Communications Strategy initiated
- April 2004 - Participating Parties Contracting process begins
- April 2004 - Privacy and Security Workgroup completed legal
and regulatory requirements for participation - link to the Privacy
Summary / link to the Security
Summary
- April 2004 - CSC Consulting added to Project Team for technical
coordination among Vendors
- March 2004 - Project Evaluation Committee initiates design
and work plan
- February 2004 ZixCorp/PocketScript selected as Technology Solution
vendor
- January 2004 - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant received
for Project Evaluation
2003
- November 2003 - Privacy and Security Workgroup constituted
- September 2003 - Project leaders in place:
- Executive Director, Alliance for Health Care Improvement
- Gary Austin, Co-Director, Director, Health Management Systems,
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA
- Diane Stone, Project Manager
- September 2003 - Proof of Concept sites identified; Emergency
Departments of:
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Medical Center
- Emerson Hospital
- August 2003 Proof of Concept data sources identified:
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Group Insurance Commission (state employees)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- MassHealth (Medicaid)
- Neighborhood Health Plan
- Tufts Health Plan
- August 2003 - MedsInfo-ED Working groups convened:
- Data Sources Workgroup (health plans, PBMs, data suppliers)
- Data Delivery Workgroup (technology solution(s) identification
and evaluation)
- Data Users Workgroup (Pilot Hospitals)
- Data Privacy & Security Workgroup (Assessment and action
addressing State and Federal Regulatory and legal requirements)
- Project Evaluation Workgroup
- June 2003 - Project Governance in place: MedsInfo Advisory
Committee
This page last updated September 28, 2005
For further information regarding the MA-SHARE initiative and
its projects, please contact Gail Fournier, Partner, CSC Consulting, via
e-mail. We welcome your further questions & look
forward to your participation in our work and our events!
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