Health Information Technology
Stakeholder Input for Implementing Medicaid-Funded Incentive Program
The Federal Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require that in order to receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to pay incentives to eligible medical professionals and acute care hospitals for adopting and meaningfully using electronic health records, New York prepare an Health Information Technology Planning -- Advanced Planning Document (HIT P-APD).
The approved HIT P-APD describes a series of planning tasks that are necessary in order to draft and submit the next federally-required document, the New York State Medicaid HIT Plan (NY SMHP).
One of these key tasks is conducting stakeholder outreach, meeting formally with various associations, groups and coalitions in order to exchange information with them and to collect from them their thoughts and ideas, suggestions and critiques on how the State should foster this incentive program and, ultimately, the best utilization of technology to exchange of healthcare information.
Summaries from these meetings are listed below for the record, as well as formal presentations or comments that the stakeholders submitted:
- American Academy of Pediatrics - District II New York State (PDF, 182KB, 28pg.)
- American College of Physicians - New York Chapter (PDF, 182KB, 28pg.)
- Presentation (PDF, 306KB, 14pg.)
- Community Health Care Association of New York State (PDF, 182KB, 28pg.)
- Presentation (PDF, 159KB, 7pg.)
- Empire Justice Center / the Legal Aid Society (PDF, 159KB, 7pg.)
- Family Planning Advocates (PDF, 76KB, 4pg.)
- Greater New York Hospital Association (PDF, 185KB, 30pg.)
- Presentation (PDF, 118KB, 18pg.)
- Letter Commenting on Incentive Rule (PDF, 176KB, 30pg.)
- HealtheLink (PDF, 78KB, 2pg.)
- Healthcare Association of New York State
- Letter Commenting on Incentive Rule (PDF, 276KB, 32pg.)
- Joint Letter to NYeC Supporting Regional HIEs (PDF, 114KB, 3pg.)
- Medical Society of the State of New York (PDF, 78KB, 2pg.)
- New York Diabetes Coalition (PDF, 78KB, 2pg.)
- New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) (PDF, 78KB, 2pg.)
- New York State Academy of Family Physicians (PDF, 126KB, 5pg.)
- New York State Association of Health Care Providers Inc. (HCP) (PDF, 127KB, 11pg.)
- Comments (PDF, 123KB, 5pg.)
- New York State Dental Association (PDF, 84KB, 4pg.)
- New York State Health Foundation (PDF, 74KB, 4pg.)
- Presentation (PDF, 127KB, 11pg.)
- Nurse Practitioner Association New York State (PDF, 781KB, 2pg.)
- Rochester Regional Health Information Organization (PDF, 921KB, 2pg.)
- Presentation (PDF, 920KB, 2pg.)
- State University of New York (SUNY)
- Comments (PDF, 45KB, 7pg.)
- List of HIT Projects at Buffalo and Stony Brook (PDF, 76KB, 4pg.)
- Letter of Endorsement (PDF, 137KB, 1pg.)
- Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) (PDF, 89KB, 2pg.)
- Presentation (PDF, 88KB, 2pg.)
- United Jewish Appeal - Federation of New York (PDF, 89KB, 2pg.)
- Visiting Nurse Service of New York (PDF, 163KB, 6pg.)
- Presentation (PDF, 107KB, 8pg.)