Now that one PHR Community Collaborative is in place, the
State is issuing a request for proposals for Additional PHR Community Collaboratives.
The Collaboratives will demonstrate an electronic Personal Health
Record (PHR) for Minnesota beneficiaries of Long Term Services and Supports
(LTSS) funded by Medical Assistance (MA), and will participate in pilot execution
and evaluation of a nationally developed electronic LTSS (e-LTSS) standard.
You'll find a link to the new RFP on the PHR for LTSS Demo Web page on Monday, July 18, 2016.
The demonstration is funded by a federal Testing Experience and Functional Tools (TEFT) grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
We've divided the four year PHR for LTSS Demo Project timeline into Seven Waves. We've nearly reached the midpoint of Wave Four (4/1 - 9/30/2016). Here's what's happening:
Personal Health Record for LTSS Waiver beneficiaries:
- The Otter Tail PHR Community Collaborative has identified 17 beneficiaries/legal representatives who plan to use the tool when it launches on October 3, 2016. Training for Case Managers and Providers is under way, with video-based training tools for beneficiaries in the works.
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MN.IT@DHS staff continue to work to gather data from DHS systems, transform it into "Profile pages" and determine the best way to transmit it to the PHR. They're working closely with staff from RelayHealth to automate data transmission.
eLTSS Standard:
- Collaborative members are working to extract the 122 fields of data that make up the Otter Tail eLTSS Standard into reports that can be shared among Collaborative members.
- Representatives of the Collaborative and DHS staff continue to participate in the Office of the National Coordinator's (ONC) Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework to help create a national eLTSS standard.
Beneficiary Experience Survey:
- Minnesota completed Round One testing of the "Experience of Care" survey in 2014-2015. We will participate in Round Two testing during the final year of the TEFT Grant (beginning in April of 2017).
Functional Assessment Standard Items (FASI):
- Round One of FASI testing has been pushed back by CMS to September of 2016. We will be working with a limited number of persons receiving MA services through the Developmental Disabilities (DD) Waiver and Brain Injury (BI) Waiver, as well as beneficiaries with Severe Mental Illness (SMI).
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FASI
is NOT a replacement for MnCHOICES – we will do only 2
rounds with limited samples to fulfill our TEFT grant obligations. What we learn from FASI may be used to inform the MnCHOICES process.
What are the PHR for LTSS Demo's goals?
- Demonstrate use of an untethered Personal Health Record (PHR) system with beneficiaries of LTSS;
- Identify, evaluate and test an electronic Long Term Services and Supports (e-LTSS) standard with the Office of the National Coordinator's (ONC) Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework process;
- Field test a Beneficiary Experience Survey within multiple CB-LTSS programs for validity and reliability; and
- Field test a set of Functional Assessment Standardized Items (FASI) measures for use with beneficiaries of CB-LTSS programs.
Where can I learn more?
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