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1 December 19, 2003 Presentation to NHII Workgroup Gary A. Christopherson enior Advisor to the Under ecretary Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

2 Maximize Health/Ability & atisfaction Population Based [community, region, nation] Person Based Episode Based Care Coordination BP/ Ideal BP/ Ideal BP/ Ideal Community care H&IT ehealth H&IT H&IT BP/ Ideal BP/ Ideal Ambulatory care Care Coordination H&IT H&IT BP/ Ideal Inpatient care tatus Well, Acute Illness, Chronic Illness, Custodial H&IT BP/ Ideal H&IT Nursing home care BP/ Ideal Domiciliary care H&IT Health ystems Best Practices & Ideal Max Accessibility Max Affordability Max Quality Max Health/Ability Max atisfaction

3 VHA s integrated health information system, including its framework for using performance measures to improve quality, is considered one of the best in the nation. Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, Leadership by Example: Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality (2002)

4 uccess in supporting health delivery for millions of veterans VistA/CPR was & is a success Built by fire of VHA collaboration Publicly owned by VA; could be for future as well trong interest by public/private in using VistA Largest integrated health info system for nation s largest integrated health system Helps serve 4.1 million American veterans annually upports: $23+ billion nationwide health system 1,300 care sites, incl. 163 hospitals & 800+ community & facility based clinics 180,000 health care staff; 85,000 trainees Considered best overall health information system

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6 VistA - Why change? Not lose functionality we have trengthen VistA Move to person & data focus Move to standardized, fully sharable health data Modernize & replace older systems Ensure documentation on application programs Move to modern technologies Increase flexibility to respond to future health needs Lower cost of maintenance upport our future health system

7 HealtheVet strategy overview Moves from facility-centric to person/data-centric Uses national, person-focused health data repository for production & management/analysis/research Builds on, enhances & utilizes VistA Moves from legacy VistA to HealtheVet-Vista Uses best, appropriate modern technology Programming, software, hardware, networking Moves core applications to run enterprise-wide tandardizes core data & communications Enhances the five major systems Regis./eligibility/enrollment, health data, provider, management/ financial, e commun./transactions Enhances cross-cutting ecurity/privacy, architecture, data quality/standards, infrastructure, enterprise system/resources management

8 NextGeneration HealtheVet-VistA - High Performance Info ystem Components/Links/tandards Outside health organizations VA organizations Registration, Enrollment & Eligibility ystem Database/ tandards IE IE e communications/ transactions Health Provider (including clinical Interface) & Data ystem Database/ tandards IE My HealtheVet [web site, virtual health record, trusted information, self-reported information, link to other health providers] Management & Financial ystem Database/ tandards EHR Enrollment ystem Laboratory ystem Pharmacy ystem Radiology ystem cheduling ystem Blood ystem Billing ystem Provider Payment ystem

9 What is Care Management? (Clinician Dashboard) Abnormal Results Red quare Acknowledged All Gray Normal Result Blue Circle Acknowledge Result Expand or Collapse Results Link Task New results may be viewed, acknowledged and associated with tasks for follow-up

10 VistA to HealtheVet (incl. HealtheVet VistA) VistA Legacy (Maintenance/Enhancement until Retirement ) [Current 2005] Enterprise Architecture trong Project Management VistA Imaging Fee Billing High Performance Network/Infrastructure ecure systems/infrastructure Health Data Repository HealtheVet-VistA (Person/Data-Centric Next Generation VistA) (2005- ) cheduling High Performance Workforce Pharmacy Laboratory

11 Toward NHII and a Virtual Health ystem EHRs Provide financial incentives trongly encourage private sector vendors to make available affordable, high quality, standards-based EHRs trongly encourage provider-based efforts like AAFP Continue to improve HealthePeople-VistA & make available PHRs trongly encourage public/private sector to work together to develop & make available PHRs for persons EHR/PHR Info Exchange (IE) trongly encourage public & private sector to work together to develop & make available national exchange solution tandards Consolidated Health Informatics as federal leadership trongly encourage public/private development/adoption of national standards

12 Toward NHII and a Virtual Health ystem Veterans Health Administration Role VHA push EHRs, PHRs, EHR/PHR Info Exchange & tandards in Federal and nationwide VHA support of NHII EHRs VHA Current -- VistA electronic health record system Next generation -- HealtheVet-VistA Public version -- HealthePeople-VistA PHRs VHA My HealtheVet EHR/PHR Info Exchange (IE) VHA Federal Health Information Exchange with DoD EHR Interoperability (HealthePeople (Federal) with DoD & IH tandards VHA Adoption of VHA-wide standards Adoption of standards between VA and DoD and VA and IH Consolidated Health Informatics

13 Toward NHII and a Virtual Health ystem Toward NHII and a Virtual Health ystem Veterans Health Administration Activities VA/DoD Electronic Health Record (EHR) ystem Health Informatics tandards, Federal Health IT Architecture, & related Federal egov Initiatives tate Veterans Homes & VistA/CPR Indian Health IT haring AAMC & Affiliated Medical chools & VistA Federal/tate/Local) Health Info & VistA haring EHR/PHR Info Exchange (IE) Personal Health Records & Home Tele-Health Care Public Health Info ystems/databases & VistA Data Private ector/non-government activities International Healthcare Community & VistA

14 Computerized Health Records (FY 2005+) DoD CHC II oftware HealthePeople (Federal) Joint, hared oftware VA HealtheVet-VistA oftware DoD CHC II Clinical Data Repository VA/DoD Exchange VA HealtheVet-VistA Health Data Repository HealthePeople (Fed.) Data tandards (standardized across MH/VHA) Federal Data, Communications, ecurity tandards HealthePeople (Fed.) Data tandards (standardized across VHA/MH) tandards Jointly use data, communications, architecture, security, technical, software standards; federal standards& potential national standards across public/private sector oftware VA/DoD/Joint high performance software Databases eparate; enterprise-wide w/i each agency Hardware eparate; mix of enterprise & local w/i each agency Exchange Two-way VA/DoD

15 Toward NHII and a Virtual Health ystem VA, DoD, IH individual/joint adoption Health Information ystems tandards Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) HealthePeople(Fed) National -- Public/Private Individual (e.g. Kaiser Permanente) Joint (Connect. Health, ehealth, HIM, NCVH, DOs, ) HealthePeople DoD CHC II VA HealtheVetHealthePeople-VistA IH (upgraded RPM) HealthePeople(Fed) Public/Private (NHII, CM, VA, health providers/ payers/regulators, private sector vendors) HealthePeople Convergence Convergence National Health Information tandards Info Exchange / haring High Performance Health Info ystems Personal Health Record ystems

16 Electrifying 1/7 th of U Economy

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