InfoLinks CoP

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Health Information Exchange Community of Practice

Website: http://www.cdc.gov/phin/communities/current-cops/infolinks/index.html
Members: 39
Latest Activity: Feb 6

The InfoLinks CoP is a national community of public health professionals with experience in organizing, implementing, and working with Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). We seek to promote the use of HIEs and generate innovative solutions to today's barriers by sharing knowledge and openly discussing the real challenges faced by those on the frontlines of implementing HIEs in the United States. Our current membership is comprised of over 130 state, local, territorial, non-profit, academic and private public health professionals.

InfoLinks employs communication tools including webinars, CDC website/listserv and phConnect Collaboration Platform. Monthly webinars involving HIE process, technological and organizational related discussions enable InfoLinks CoP members who are beginning to explore information exchanges to learn from more-experienced practitioners, who can, in turn, share cutting edge information among themselves and continue to be innovators in their field. The Community meets via webinar/teleconference the second Thursday each month from 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET. The Planning Meeting/Conference Call is usually held the first Thursday of each month.

InfoLinks CoP knowledge products include leading practices documents, guidelines documents, knowledge repositories and a centralized knowledgebase of existing HIE-related projects and documentation and working papers.

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Comment by Susan Rudd on February 5, 2010 at 7:35pm: InfoLinks Community of Practice (CoP) Webinar
Web and Audio Access Info

Webinar Link: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/cdc/join?id=5KMD4J&role=attend&pw=gGC%3C%60X62j

Toll free: +1 (866) 509-2958
Participant code: 1278012

CDC Century Center 2500, Room 3029
February 11, 2010
2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

Agenda

1. Welcome and introduction

2. Presentation - Dr. Anna Orlova, PH Data Standards Consortium – Business Case
Paper: The Role of Public Health in National Health Information Technology
Standardization

3. Community sharing/discussion:

 CDC Analysis-Visualization-Reporting (AVR) Webinars - info/highlights
 ONC and CMS HITECH Proposal for Meaningful Use Regulations & and Setting
Standards for EHR Incentive Program.
 Status of public health response letter to ONC from CoP Council.

4. CDC Organizational Improvement update/status

5. Community Business – Susan

 Planning for ONC HITECH presentation and public health involvement
 New phConnect feature showcasing guest Subject Matter Experts for live discussion
 March 11 – Presentation - Minnesota DoH - Developing a PH Informatics Profile
– A Toolkit for State and Local Health Departments
 Future presentation by NACCHO Senior Informatics Analyst, Alistair Matheson
on local public health status in HI field, current projects and success stories.

6. Adjourn @ 3:00 pm ET

We look forward to hearing from you!

Comment by John McLamb on January 28, 2010 at 4:53pm: MEANINGFUL USE and SSA Webinar (from HIMSS)

Valuable and Timely Webinar for Meaning Use and SSA
Meaningful Use’ of the Nationwide Health Information Network: Lessons Learned from SSA and the States

Meaningful Use’ of the Nationwide Health Information Network: Lessons Learned from SSA and the States
Webinar provided by HIMSS
February 11, 2010 11:00 Eastern / 10:00 Central / 09:00 Mountain / 08:00 Pacific

The Social Security Administration (SSA) was the first federal agency to use the NHIN as a tool to gain rapid access to electronic health information. In its partnership with MedVirgina, the Richmond-based regional Health Information Exchange (HIE), the partners used NHIN technologies to speed the delivery of clinical health records of patients awaiting medical disability decisions. In accelerating the process from weeks to days, the project often dramatically improved the quality of life of individual patients as well as eliminated costs and overhead associated with manual record-keeping.

In this e-seminar hosted by Government Health IT magazine, James C. Borland, special advisor to the SSA for health IT, and Jean McGraw, chief operating officer of MedVirginia will assess their experience setting up this pioneering NHIN application as they look ahead to the era of rapid adoption and meaningful use of health IT among individual practices and hospitals.

Among the topics that will be addressed are: Key lessons from the SSA-MedVirginia partnership most relevant to agencies, other HIE’s and individual providers facing a new era of health IT; how federal agencies and state-based health organizations can best use NHIN-based tools and services to foster information exchange with satellite and partner organizations; what meaningful use requirements will be most significant to the expansion of a broader health information Internet.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify agency and HIE projects and objectives that are in line with the HITECH Act’s meaningful use framework for EHR adoption.
2. Learn what NHIN services and tools will be best conductors for expanding HIE by 2011.
3. Discover potential for establishing health information sharing projects via local and regional HIE organizations with federal and state government health-related agencies.

Who should attend?

# Senior-Level Federal Health IT program executives
# State and Local Government Health IT Senior-Level Executives
# Director of State HIE initiatives
# Local HIE partners

Date: February 11, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM CST
Duration: 60-minutes

http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=190147&s=1&k=1607C216289BBCE6F77B2C019EA3E895
You can view the event at the link provided above.

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LOGIN INFO FOR EVENT Below (you may have to be a HIMSS member for this webinar, if you cannot register at above link, below is my registration info)
-----Original Message-----
From: Event Notification [mailto:do_not_reply@on24event.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:36 PM
To: Mclamb, John
Subject: Thank you for registering

Thank you for registering for the upcoming Webcast:

‘Meaningful Use’ of the Nationwide Health Information Network: Lessons Learned from SSA and the States

Date: February 11, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM CST
Duration: 60-minutes

http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=190147&s=1&k=1607C216289BBCE6F77B2C019EA3E895

You can view the event at the link provided above.

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Comment by John McLamb on January 28, 2010 at 2:01pm: Hospitals not ready for swell of data to come
January 28, 2010

ROUND ROCK, TX – A survey sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Dell has found that the data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them.

I don't think state and local PH entities and their IT resources are either.

Has any PH group done a survey to discover PH's readiness for the "wave of data" and recieving/sending/sharing Meaningful Use Criteria data?

Comment by Susan Rudd on January 13, 2010 at 2:55pm: 14 January InfoLinks - Meaningful Use - Public Health Impact Webinar Access Info
UPDATED WEBINAR LINK AND AUDIO ACCESS INFO

InfoLinks Webinar link:

Webinar Participant Link: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/cdc/join?id=5KMD4J&role=attend&pw=gGC%3C%60X62j

The audio access info for this meeting is: Toll-free: + 1 (888) 795-8052
Participant code: 8968169

We look forward to your participation!

Comment by Susan Rudd on January 11, 2010 at 5:48pm: InfoLinks Community of Practice Call
CDC Century Center 2500, Rm 3029
January 14, 2010
2:00 – 3:00 pm ET

Agenda

1. Welcome and introduction

2. Presentation/Discussion led by Bill Brand, PHII – Proposed Rules for Meaningful Use, Standards and Certification—Implications for Public Health

3. E-health Knowledge Products Distribution/Publication Status

4. Community sharing/discussion

5. Community Business

 phConnect training videos/guides now available under on-site Help

 Planning for an ONC presentation on HITECH, HIE and public health

 Coming soon – Launch of new phConnect feature showcasing guest SME
for online discussion and questions

 March 11th presentation – Minnesota - Toolkit for State and Local Health Departments to Assess their Informatics Capacity

6. Adjourn @ 3:00 pm ET

We look foward to hearing from you on these critical public health issues!

Comment by Susan Rudd on November 10, 2009 at 5:29pm: Agenda for Thursday, 12 November Call:
InfoLinks Community of Practice
CDC Century Center 2500, Room 3029
November 12, 2009
2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

Webinar access information:

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/cdc/join?id=5KMD4J&role=attend&pw=gGC%3C%60X62j

Toll-free: + 1 (866) 509-2958
Participant code: 1278012

Agenda

Welcome and introduction

Presentation: “Toward a Healthier Future – IBM’s Public Health Solutions” Panorama System in Canada

Update on E-health strategy paper/roadmap

Community feedback/discussion – presentation topic suggestions

State HITECH Implementation plans/efforts

Community Business and Next Steps:

phConnect training podcast coming to CoP website by mid November

October Meeting Presentation slides and audio available on phConnect

phConnect site updated frequently, please check site for new developments
& post your comments or discussions.

December presentation – Duval County, Florida HIE by Dr. William C.
Livingood, Director, Institute for Public Health Informatics & Research,
Jacksonville, FL

Adjourn @ 3:00

Additional Info:

InfoLinks CoP website: http://www.cdc.gov/phin/communities/current-cops/infolinks/index.html

Comment by Susan Rudd on November 10, 2009 at 5:27pm: During our discussion time at our monthly call on Thursday, 12 November, we will be asking for presentation topic feedback. Please be thinking about presentation topics that would be helpful to you or that you would like to share. One suggestion would be your State HITECH Implementation plans/efforts. Bill Brand with PHII will be leading this discussion. Please join the call and come prepared to share your thoughts.

Comment by Susan Rudd on October 29, 2009 at 2:28pm: Thanks so much for sharing this with our Community, Bill! This will be a timely and informative addition to our Community's resources.

Comment by Bill Brand on October 29, 2009 at 1:49pm: InfoLinks members:
The attached file inlcudes slides from a recent nationwide webinar we sponsored on the impact of HITECH on public health and population health. It featured Kelly Cronin (ONC), Martin LaVenture (Minnesota) and Arthur Davidson (Denver).
Bill

HITECH Webcast 093009 (2).pdf

Comment by Susan Rudd on October 6, 2009 at 2:17pm: Agenda for Thursday's Call:

Welcome and introduction

“Connect Open Source Software” presentation by Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) U.S. Department Health and Human Services (DHHS) Federal Health Architecture (FHA)

Update on E-health strategy paper and roadmap

Community feedback/discussion

Community Business

Website training podcast for phConnect coming soon

August Meeting Presentation slides available

Adjourn @ 3:00