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1. Medicaid and CHIP (2007-2012) | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provided a technical assistance program to Medicaid and CHIP agencies … assistance program developed and provided a wide range of resources and tools to assist Medicaid and CHIP agencies … The program was a resource for agencies needing assistance with plans for using or implementing health … allows users to search for content on health IT and HIE issues directly related to Medicaid and CHIP agencies … Case studies highlighting Medicaid-CHIP agencies are also available in the repository.

2. Needs Assessment for and Implementation of Technical Assistance for Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - provides technical assistance (TA) to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIP) agencies … Medicaid and CHIP agencies have been increasing their involvement in both the planning and implementation … In pursuit of this work agencies experience a number of challenges which help inform the development … assessment, a multistate collaborative, and outputs from interaction among participants and federal agencies … At intervals during the project, RTI tracked Medicaid and CHIP agencies' progress on health IT and HIE

3. Technical Assistance for Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
   digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/technical-assistance-health-information-technology-and-health-information/annual-summary/2011
   January 01, 2011 - Medicaid and CHIP agencies have been working to increase involvement in the planning and implementation … RTI International (RTI) developed and implemented a 3-year TA program for Medicaid and CHIP agencies … RTI also set up a hotline with a toll-free number that personnel at agencies could call to ask a member … Project staff continued to update information about Medicaid and CHIP agencies' initiatives, their plans … Impact and Findings: The Year 1 needs assessment analysis revealed that: 1) most agencies had at least

4. Technical Assistance for Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
   digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/technical-assistance-health-information-technology-and-health-information/annual-summary/2012
   January 01, 2012 - Medicaid and CHIP agencies have been working to increase involvement in the planning and implementation … RTI International (RTI) developed and implemented a 4.5-year TA program for Medicaid and CHIP agencies … Project staff continued to update information about Medicaid and CHIP agencies’ initiatives, their plans … Impact and Findings: The needs assessment analysis revealed that: 1) most agencies had at least one … the value of their health IT initiatives, but few could provide details; 3) the main challenges for agencies

5. Medicaid and CHIP Repository | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - Medicaid and CHIP Repository   Medicaid and CHIP agencies … Medicaid agencies serve as the largest health care purchasers for Americans and along with CHIP provide … Theses agencies are also confronted with unique roadblocks to participating in Health IT/HIE and thus … repository has grow over time to include the most relevant information available to staff within the agencies … keyword within a wide range of content on Health IT and HIE issues directly related to Medicaid and CHIP agencies

6. Patient Safety Metadata | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - registry has been a collaborative effort among several health information organizations and Federal agencies … The USHIK registry supports these initiatives and participating Federal Government health care agencies … for maintaining and harmonizing standardized, approved data artifacts across multiple organizations, agencies … Provide support for external agencies. … health data elements, identified duplicative data resources, and enabled information sharing among agencies

7. Technical Assistance for Health Information Technology - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
   digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/technical-assistance-health-information-technology-and-health-information/annual-summary/2010
   January 01, 2010 - Medicaid and CHIP agencies have been working toward increased involvement in the planning and implementation … RTI also set up a hotline with a toll-free number that personnel at agencies can call to speak to a member … Project staff continued to update information about Medicaid and CHIP agencies’ initiatives, their plans … The report also discusses policy changes, such as the Affordable Care Act, that will impact Medicaid agencies … value of their health IT initiatives but few could provide any details; 3) the main challenges for agencies

8. Patient Safety Metadata - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
   digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/patient-safety-metadata/activity/patient-safety-metadata/annual-summary/2010
   January 01, 2010 - Commission, has been a collaborative effort among several health information organizations and Federal agencies … These agencies recognize the need to maintain an Internet-based registry of data standards to be maintained … The USHIK registry supports these initiatives and participating Federal Government health care agencies … As reusable components are identified and agencies begin to collaborate, USHIK is the single point of … continuity among initiatives, agencies, and projects.

9. Establishing a Foundation for Medicaid’s Role in the Adoption of Health Information Technology: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations for the Future (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2007 - In order for Medicaid agencies to achieve cost, efficiency, and quality improvements while promoting … Medication costs have been an ongoing issue for Medicaid agencies. … health agencies in many States. … What standards should be developed to guide data sharing among Medicaid agencies? … Federal agencies award $1.4 million to patient safety initiative in Massachusetts.

10. Glazner JE et al. 2004 "Using an immunization registry: effect on practice costs and time." | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2004 - postregistry period for private practices and CHCs ($0.56 per shot in 2001 dollars) and public health agencies … that staff time decreased for private practices and CHCs but increased substantially for public health agencies … Public health agencies, however, would have to rely exclusively on the registry and eschew the use of … In public health agencies after implementation of the registry, "time spent on immunization activities … visits, thereby reducing time needed for other immunization-related activities, whereas public health agencies

11. United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - has been developed through the collaboration of several health information organizations and Federal agencies … USHIK registry focuses on supporting initiatives and the participating Federal government health care agencies … standardized approved data elements and their metadata (characteristics) across multiple organizations, agencies … Providing Support for External Agencies: State All-Payers Metadata: Loading data element information

12. E_Glossary (pdf file)
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    June 16, 2021 - Government agencies and organizations take an active role in developing successful business and legal … Government agencies and commissions move beyond the individual silos in which they operate to address … Regulatory Agencies Generally governmental and often reporting to the Executive Branch (state and federal … Regulate activity of organizations and individuals generally outlined in rule/regulation (Medicaid agencies … public health authorities, Board of Medical Examiners, insurance commissions, consumer protection agencies

13. E_Glossary (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/E_Glossary_0.pdf
    June 16, 2021 - Government agencies and organizations take an active role in developing successful business and legal … Government agencies and commissions move beyond the individual silos in which they operate to address … Regulatory Agencies Generally governmental and often reporting to the Executive Branch (state and federal … Regulate activity of organizations and individuals generally outlined in rule/regulation (Medicaid agencies … public health authorities, Board of Medical Examiners, insurance commissions, consumer protection agencies

14. Replication of Health Information Exchange Framework Across Oklahoma (pdf file)
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    June 16, 2021 - SMRTNET members include hospitals, community health centers, mental health agencies, public health agencies … , universities, and Native American health agencies.

15. Wyoming | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/privacy-and-security-project/wyoming
    January 01, 2023 - fiercely independent, with a strong desire for privacy and minimal intrusion from state and federal agencies … health care professional groups, federal health facilities, hospitals, schools, payers, public health agencies

16. United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/support-united-states-health-information-knowledgebase-ushik/annual-summary/2012
    January 01, 2012 - has been developed through the collaboration of several health information organizations and Federal agencies … USHIK registry focuses on supporting initiatives and the participating Federal government health care agencies … standardized approved data elements and their metadata (characteristics) across multiple organizations, agencies … (Ongoing)   Provide Support for External Agencies: State All-Payers Metadata.

17. University of Maryland | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - annual Conference on Health IT & Analytics connected a wide range of academic disciplines, Federal agencies … identify strategies for effective and efficient adoption of health information technology by home health agencies

18. Overview | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - State Medicaid Agencies’ Initiatives on Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange … for Medicaid’s participation in HIT and HIE efforts, and to present opportunities for State Medicaid agencies … comprised of Medicaid policy and HIT experts, literature and web reviews, interviews with State and Federal agencies

19. Massachusetts | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/privacy-and-security-project/massachusetts
    January 01, 2023 - MHDC andMassachusetts providers, payers, government agencies, and consumers recognize the importance … clinical data exchange have been identified in over 20 categories of providers, payers, government agencies

20. Emergency Medical Service Responders Use Health IT to Improve Cardiac Care (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/THQITStoriesSelker2010.pdf
    January 01, 2010 - EMS agencies in two Massachusetts communities worked with researchers on an AHRQ­sponsored grant to … A Web­based reporting system integrated data manually entered by EMS agencies and hospitals to measure … EMS agencies reviewed reports produced from the system to evaluate the care provided by and develop