Today, states and Medicaid agencies are responsible for much more than just providing for medical services for the disabled and disadvantaged. With newfound responsibilities - under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - the states are now responsible for facilitating data exchange amongst Health Information Organizations (HIO) and providers. This facilitation is necessary in order for providers to meet the data capture and sharing requirements of "meaningful use" of "certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology," as mandated by the healthcare reform deadlines.
In trying to keep up with the necessary data sharing in today’s health environment, providers and payers are beginning to explore ways of sharing health data across regions, providers, payers, public health agencies and other stakeholders in the healthcare continuum. Specifically, state Medicaid agencies must look at ways to leverage their existing systems and infrastructure in order meet these new responsibilities and initiatives.
By taking data from other agencies within the state, the agency can integrate this data with their current recipient information and use this early implementation as a unit of analysis to determine the efficacy of the implementation.eCAMS provides a series of services that enable the Medicaid program to extend itself into the connected healthcare world.
eCAMS Connected Health Care Services is a suite of leading edge services implemented using industry standards for Health Information Exchange and federal recommended tools, such as CONNECT. The current set includes available services such as HIE Services, eMIPP, Meaningful Use Reporting and Tracking, Master Patient Index.
CNSI is working with states and other multi-stakeholder public-private initiatives to enable integrated health information exchange. Following a fedaral grant award, CNSI has been providing technology and eCAMS Connected Health Care Services to enable SE Michigin Health Information Exchange (SEMHIE) to successfully complete conformance and interoperabiity testing by ONC, and to go live on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN).
This contract provides for the secure, authorized exchange of summary patient information for disability determination between SEMHIE health systems’ and providers’ electronic medical record (EMR) systems and the SSA. Once received, decisions on these claims can then be made by SSA, providing disabled citizens with an accelerated approval process that will improve access to healthcare services, accelerate the claims approval process and bring increased federal dollars to the Detroit area.
