Health Level Seven International Unlocking the Power of Health Information
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1 Health Level Seven International Unlocking the Power of Health Information An ANSI accredited standards developer March 15, 2010 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention CMS-0033-P Mail Stop C Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD RE: NPRM: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) incentive program for the Meaningful Use of electronic health records (EHRs) marks a major, positive step forward in the nation s efforts to improve health and health care by putting modern information technology (IT) tools at the fingertips of medical professionals and consumers alike. Health Level Seven members strongly support moving forward on the development and widespread implementation of interoperable healthcare IT, including the Nationwide Health Information Network, which includes the maximum participation by all clinician categories across all healthcare delivery settings. A critical first step is ensuring that eligible professionals and hospitals can achieve adoption and meaningful use of qualified, certified, EHR technology. Clearly, the goal of such adoption and use is increased access, quality, and efficiency. Thus, while the Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs should emphasize improvement in these areas as an end result, we should also be mindful that adoption of the right technologies must precede its meaningful use. Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization (SDO) dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. HL7's 2,300+ members represent approximately 500 organizations who represent more than 90% of the information systems vendors serving healthcare in the US. Although HL7 is an SDO, the comments below propose reasonable and important modifications we felt were appropriate to the NPRM and represent input from Working Groups within HL7. Use of ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM Codes for Clinical Problems ICD-9-CM codes are used in billing systems for reporting diagnosis, problems, and conditions to payers. Providers are required to send ICD-9-CM to payers when they bill for services meant to eliminate a diagnosis. In HIPAA X12 837, the ICD-9-CM is accompanied by a flag that indicates whether this code is being used for that purpose. Neither the CCR nor the CCD support such a flag, so there is no way to 3300 Washtenaw Ave., Suite 227 Ann Arbor, MI USA 1 P a g e
2 know whether ICD-9-CM codes used in either report format accurately conveys the patient s problems. If EHR technology must be certified as supporting use of ICD-9-CM, then providers may populate the summary records, quality measures, discharge instructions, and referrals with billing ICD codes resulting in false positives about the patient s condition if these codes are used for analysis or decision support. ICD codes are inappropriate for clinical information. Since the CCD is more clinically focused, ICDs are not an appropriate vocabulary, and their use will impact the ability to implement CCD. The use of SNOMED with CCD. X12 HIPAA Transactions X Claims and 270/271 Eligibility Verification transactions are included as certification criteria, and as meaningful use measures. While implementation of an eprescribing module as part of HITECH EHR technology makes sense and we appreciate the relevance in the context of administrative efficiency improvements, we fail to see the priority given for implementation of a module that is typically not considered part of an EHR system, and is typically implemented in a practice management system or out-sourced to a billing service. Any provider who is compliant with HIPAA ought to be doing them anyway. That aside, we are even less clear why HHS would require providers to implement the X A1 in 2011 in order to receive HITECH incentives only to have to upgrade to the X in 2013, which they are required to do anyway. Eliminate X12 HIPAA transactions as certification criteria and standards and as meaningful use measures in the NPRM. Concern with CAQH CORE 270/271 and Phishing Prohibitions HL7 supports development of HL7 Financial Management message and service standards for the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA). For this reason, HL7 is concerned that a strict interpretation of the HIPAA-mandated ASC X12N 270/271 Health Care Eligibility Benefit Inquiry and Response, Version 4010 (004010X092) and Addenda to Health Care Eligibility Benefit Inquiry and Response (004010X092A1) as well as ASC X12 Standards for Electronic Data Interchange Technical Report Type 3, Version 5010 (ASC X12N/005010X279) requirements for the use of the AAA Segment to report errors in identifying the patient in the 271 Response transaction likely conflicts with established policies and procedures regarding phishing that many Medicaid agencies have established. This will impede progress on the development of HL7 Financial Management Medicaid Beneficiary Registry messages and service specifications. The specific concern is that a strict interpretation of the 270/271 AAA specification requires the payer to inform the requestor exactly which fields in the search request caused the mismatch with the payer data providing an opportunity for phishing. Further investigation is required to determine the impact of such a strict interpretation of the HIPAA-mandated transaction set and the use the AAA segment may have on privacy and other policies of Medicaid agencies and other governmental bodies Washtenaw Ave., Suite 227 Ann Arbor, MI USA 2 P a g e
3 Clarify the inherent conflict between established Medicaid policies and procedures regarding phishing and CAQH CORE 270/271 so that HL7 s work on MITA standards can progress. Medication Reconciliation With respect to the criterion for medication reconciliation 1, please clarify whether reconciliation is to be performed only for current medications, for a particular date range, or for all known medications. Security and EHR Modules HL7 recommends that the clarification provided in the proposed Certification rule about the application of the privacy and security certification criteria to complete EHRS or EHR modules be incorporated or referenced in the final rule on Health Information Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology Access Control Standard, and Support for Patient Authorizations and Consents We note that the qualifier patient authorized that is included in the preamble is dropped from the wording of the regulation. We strongly urge that this qualifier be included in the actual regulation in order for this certification criterion to enable providers to meet multiple jurisdictional laws relating to patient authorizations and consents. In addition, while the regulatory language does include an access control certification criteria, we are concerned that the NPRM stipulation [2] that providers must only meet certification criteria for which a standard has been named may preclude any actual certification of access control capabilities. That ONC adopt a functional standard for access control and for the electronic capture, management, and conveyance of patient consents and authorizations afforded under HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, state laws, The Medicaid program confidentiality requirements [1], and ARRA. These functional specifications should enable computable enforcement of patient authorizations and consents by means of access control technologies that use standardized role, permission, and purpose of use vocabularies in order to meet the criterion: Capability to exchange key clinical information among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically. Furthermore, HL7 recommends that ONC include a comprehensive definition of access control that includes the notion of object/operation pairs or permissions that can be assigned to roles and users under conditions, with obligations, and for specified purposes of use (l): Medication reconciliation. Electronically complete medication reconciliation of two or more medication lists by comparing and merging into a single medication list that can be electronically displayed in real-time [2] Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 8 / Wednesday, January 13, 2010 / Proposed Rules, page 1846 "In a related proposed rule, the Department will propose the development of a certification program for health IT. Specifically, we have sought to ensure that the definition of meaningful use of certified EHR technology does not require EPs and eligible hospitals to perform functionalities for which standards have not been recognized or established" [1] The State Medicaid Manual Chapter 11 Section D. Safeguards.--You must insure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the confidentiality of eligibility information. The use or disclosure of this information is restricted to purposes directly connected with the administration of the Medicaid program Washtenaw Ave., Suite 227 Ann Arbor, MI USA 3 P a g e
4 The NPRM states that documentation of progress notes is a medical-legal requirement and a component of basic EHR functionality. The HL7 RM-ES Workgroup strongly believes that progress notes are more than just a medico-legal requirement. The HL7 RM-ES Workgroup has reviewed the HIT Policy Committee letter dated February 17, 2010 and agrees with the statement that Electronic access to progress notes is key to delivering high quality care and for coordination of care for several reasons, including the following: Handwritten medical records do not only take more time to decipher, their illegibility often obscures important information. Information that is not entered electronically at the point of care is lost forever, thus rendering the record less complete. Hybrid systems (part electronic, part paper) cause fragmentation of the record and inefficient workflow. Maintaining progress notes on paper impedes patients access to this information because there is no structured way to provide patients with context to those data. Sharing electronic progress notes is fundamental to successful care coordination. Textual progress notes provide significant information about the patient that is not captured in the structured format elsewhere. Providers use these to know the patient as a human being, and patient focus groups suggest the best way to improve quality of care is for personal clinicians to really know me. The HL7 RM-ES Workgroup strongly believes the unstructured text in a progress note is an essential component of clinical documentation that is used by the provider to communicate their thought process and observations, as well as that is a part of the development of the treatment plan, decision making and care coordination and management. The HL7 RM-ES workgroup believes that progress notes are equally as valuable for inpatient care, although at the present time the majority of today s hospital do not maintain EHR systems which provide for documentation of progress notes for each patient encounter. At this point in time, a combination of both paper and electronic and paper documentation of the patient progress notes is in use. Include progress notes documentation for EP in Stage 1 and for EH in Stage 2, considering that progress notes are already part of certified EHRs for EP although not EH, but were consciously excluded in the published IFR and NPRM. Re-introduction in Stage 1 for EH at this late date would provide insufficient lead time for developers and providers Washtenaw Ave., Suite 227 Ann Arbor, MI USA 4 P a g e
5 Sincerely, Robert H. Dolin, MD Chair, HL7 International Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD Chief Executive Officer 3300 Washtenaw Ave., Suite 227 Ann Arbor, MI USA 5 P a g e
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