Time to Act: The New Interoperability Regulations Have Functional Limitations That Physical Therapy Can Address
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About the Webinar
Join Dan Vreeman, Matt Elrod, and Robert "Bob” Latz to learn and discuss the new federal rules for clinical data exchange between providers, payers, and patients. Although these regulations are designed to give patients and their healthcare providers secure access to health information, they lack provisions for representing functional status and movement. Physical therapists need to provide input to the policy makers on which data should be required for nationwide health information exchange. Yet knowing how, where, and when to do so is not easy. With a rapidly approaching federal comment deadline in October 2020, this session seeks to educate, gather input, and build an ongoing feedback loop to help ensure that the care you provide can be exchanged with others in sharable and computable ways.
In the first half of this session we’ll cover key provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act (data access and information-blocking), the central role of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), and prominent pilot work in the post-acute care sector for exchanging functioning data (the PACIO Project). We will also share a draft framework for expanding the USCDI to incorporate functioning data.
In the second half of the webinar, we invite open discussion of the potential impact of these standards and how to share feedback with APTA and others to influence further development.
Upon completion of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the role of the USCDI in nationwide health information exchange
- Provide input on functional status and movement data sharing
- Discuss the potential impact of these standards on our profession of Physical Therapy
- Share feedback with APTA and others to influence further development
About the Panelists:
Matt Elrod, PT, DPT, MEd, is a Senior Clinical Informaticist that brings clinical experience to the development and use of health information technology (HIT) standards. He participates and leads clinical and technical groups for setting data standards. This includes working directly with professional societies to improve interoperability.
Matt’s involvement with HL7 and data standards includes serving as the Clinical Lead for PACIO’s (Post Acute Care Interoperability) Functional Status group and involvement with the Gravity Project FHIR Social Determinants of Health Implementation Guide. Activities include developing use cases as well as participating and supporting HL7 FHIR Connectathon tracks for PACIO, Gravity, and Care Coordination.
Matt has over 25 years experience working in the field of Physical Therapy and is an APTA Board Certified Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy.
Robert Latz, PT, DPT, CHCIO, is the only Physical Therapist with the HealthCare CIO certification from CHIME (College of Health Information Management Executives). He is the President of the APTA HPA: The Catalyst Technology SIG and a Board Member of HPA: The Catalyst. He is a member of several APTA Sections, including Acute Care, Home Health; and Geriatrics, which give him insight into data sharing across the continuum. He is a Board Member of the National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) where he is active in the IT and Medical Services Committees and was the 2018 NASL Member of the Year. He is a member of the LTPAC HIT Collaborative, the LTPAC CIO Consortium, the HIMSS LTPAC Committee, and the APTA PAC Workgroup.
Dr. Latz is the Chief Information Officer for Trinity Rehabilitation Services, which improves human function by providing contracted therapy services in Post-Acute Care settings.
Daniel J. Vreeman, PT, DPT, MS, FACMI, is a physical therapist, biomedical informatician, and expert in health data standards. His work aims to create a global health ecosystem where data is available with open standards that unlock the potential for information systems and applications to improve health decision-making and care. Dr. Vreeman is the Senior Clinical Data Standards Lead at RTI International where he advances health data standards and interoperability.
From 2006 to 2019, Dr. Vreeman was the Director, LOINC and Health Data Standards with the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the inaugural Regenstrief–McDonald Scholar in Data Standards at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In those roles, he led the development of LOINC, an open vocabulary standard for health measurements, observations and documents that is now used in more than 175 countries.
Dr. Vreeman’s leadership on health data standards is globally recognized. He has published numerous scientific papers, guides and articles, and has presented over 250 invited lectures worldwide. He is the author of the book LOINC Essentials: A step-by-step guide for getting your local codes mapped to LOINC. His innovative work has been recognized through notable awards, including being elected as fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Duke University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, the Technology and Innovation Award from the American Physical Therapy Association Health Policy and Administration Section.
