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Public Health Reporting Systems and the Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Program makes interfacing informational technology simpler. Jason Suchon, Public Health Registry Project Specialist, discusses how these systems work.
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Jason Suchon
Jason Suchon is a Public Health Registry Project Specialist with MetaStar primarily working with onboarding Wisconsin Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Providers to the Wisconsin Public Health Programs accepting electronic data submissions. Jason has a background that entails over 11 years of experience with Immunization Registries and has over 12 years of experience in electronic data exchange between health systems. Jason has earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in Information Systems and Finance. Jason is an avid sports fan, enjoys golf, and spending time with his extended family. Transcription:
Anne Hoffman (Host): Jason Suchon is a Public Health Registry Project Specialist at MetaStar primarily working with onboarding Wisconsin Medicaid Promoting Interoperability providers to the Wisconsin Public Health Programs accepting electronic data submissions.
This is MetaStar Health IT Radio, the podcast from MetaStar. I’m your host, Anne Hoffman. So, Jason, great to talk with you. What is Medicaid Promoting Interoperability? That’s a mouthful, right?
Jason Suchon (Guest): Medicaid Promoting Interoperability is a rebranding of the Medicaid Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program. It has an ongoing commitment to interoperability, patient data access and system-wide health information exchange. It features streamlined requirements that focus on reducing administrative burden for providers and adaption of application programming interfaces, otherwise known as APIs.
Promoting Interoperability has eight different core measures that have to be met by participating hospitals, clinics and eligible professionals. And today, we will be talking more about objective eight which is Public Health and Clinical Data Registry Reporting.
Host: Can you give me some more information about the Public Health Reporting Systems that are available for submission for the measures of objective eight?
Jason: Yeah. So, primarily, MetaStar’s vision is in optimal health for all and the Public Health Registries support that vision essentially. The Wisconsin Immunization Registry, the Syndromic Surveillance System, the Cancer Reporting System, the Electronic Case Reporting System and the Reportable Lab Results System are all systems that can be reported upon for this objective eight measure.
And essentially, all of these systems are kind of like an individual superhero, but combined, they end up being like the X-Man or the Avengers and are used in order to prevent, identify, monitor, control and make plans to protect the people of Wisconsin from any communicable diseases.
Host: Can you describe what information is collected by the Public Health Systems and what they are used for?
Jason: Yeah. The Public Health Systems collect information specific to immunizations, admissions and discharges of patients, cancer information on Wisconsin residents, reportable disease information as well as lab results from other – within the state essentially. In the five systems, they can be used together in order to detect, monitor, and respond to public health events essentially.
Host: Who is able to report to these systems?
Jason: Most of the time, for Promoting Interoperability, eligible hospitals, clinics and eligible professionals are able to submit to all of the systems. However, the Syndromic Surveillance System is only working on conducting onboarding outreach to hospitals but in the future, will accept information from clinics and eligible professionals as well. The Cancer Registry only accepts information from those hospitals, clinics and eligible professionals that are working with cancer patients. The Wisconsin Immunization Registry also accepts information from other sources such as Public Health Departments, pharmacies, and your employer flu shot clinics and is actually capable of sending information out back to those systems with the history of the immunization of the patients and the recommendations for the next doses of administration.
Host: Can you describe the process of submitting to one of these systems?
Jason: The way to primarily sign up is to register on the Public Health Registry Electronic Data Submission website also know as PHREDS, that’s P-H-R-E-D-S. and the PHREDS system –
Host: And who is signing up? Is it patients, is it doctors, is it –
Jason: Hospitals, clinics, eligible professionals typically are using the PHREDS registration system. Most of these point of care settings that are collecting this information can report that information to the Public Health Registries and the kind of information that PHREDS collects is like what type of system are you using, what systems do you want to report to and other technical questions like how do we go about communicating back to you as well. So, that’s primarily what you do is you register and then you would be placed in a queue in order to for a Public Health Registries specialist to outreach to you in order to conduct the onboarding process essentially.
Host: In your experience, what tips can you recommend or what’s something people should be aware of during this process of reporting to the Public Health Reporting Systems?
Jason: The most important part is the registration piece I would say. Once you’ve registered, essentially you are in this active engagement stage, unless you stop communicating with Public Health once they outreach to you. The next important piece is to be patient with Public Health Registries. There’s limited resources. Sometimes only a couple people within a Public Health Registry staff that are working on the onboarding efforts and not everyone can be onboarded at the same time. So, like you were taught in kindergarten, be patient and wait your turn.
Another recommendation is to review the onboarding documentation that might be available on the PHREDS website and complete any necessary training or paperwork for the registries that might be needed prior to us outreaching to you.
Host: Okay. So, not too cumbersome as long as you’re responding and staying on the top of the queue. So, where should people go if they want more information on the topic?
Jason: To join MetaStar and Public Health Registries and optimizing health for every individual in the state and access to additional resources about the topic that we’ve been talking about they can visit www.metastar.com/podcast. And MetaStar is spelled M-E-T-A-S-T-A-R.
Host: All right. Jason thanks so much for joining us today. That’s Jason Suchon. A Public Health Registry Project Specialist at MetaStar. Thanks for checking out this episode of MetaStar Health IT Radio. Head to www.metastar.com/podcast to get connected with Jason Suchon or another provider. If you found this podcast helpful, please share it on your social channels and be sure to check out the entire podcast library for topics that interest you.
Anne Hoffman (Host): Jason Suchon is a Public Health Registry Project Specialist at MetaStar primarily working with onboarding Wisconsin Medicaid Promoting Interoperability providers to the Wisconsin Public Health Programs accepting electronic data submissions.
This is MetaStar Health IT Radio, the podcast from MetaStar. I’m your host, Anne Hoffman. So, Jason, great to talk with you. What is Medicaid Promoting Interoperability? That’s a mouthful, right?
Jason Suchon (Guest): Medicaid Promoting Interoperability is a rebranding of the Medicaid Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program. It has an ongoing commitment to interoperability, patient data access and system-wide health information exchange. It features streamlined requirements that focus on reducing administrative burden for providers and adaption of application programming interfaces, otherwise known as APIs.
Promoting Interoperability has eight different core measures that have to be met by participating hospitals, clinics and eligible professionals. And today, we will be talking more about objective eight which is Public Health and Clinical Data Registry Reporting.
Host: Can you give me some more information about the Public Health Reporting Systems that are available for submission for the measures of objective eight?
Jason: Yeah. So, primarily, MetaStar’s vision is in optimal health for all and the Public Health Registries support that vision essentially. The Wisconsin Immunization Registry, the Syndromic Surveillance System, the Cancer Reporting System, the Electronic Case Reporting System and the Reportable Lab Results System are all systems that can be reported upon for this objective eight measure.
And essentially, all of these systems are kind of like an individual superhero, but combined, they end up being like the X-Man or the Avengers and are used in order to prevent, identify, monitor, control and make plans to protect the people of Wisconsin from any communicable diseases.
Host: Can you describe what information is collected by the Public Health Systems and what they are used for?
Jason: Yeah. The Public Health Systems collect information specific to immunizations, admissions and discharges of patients, cancer information on Wisconsin residents, reportable disease information as well as lab results from other – within the state essentially. In the five systems, they can be used together in order to detect, monitor, and respond to public health events essentially.
Host: Who is able to report to these systems?
Jason: Most of the time, for Promoting Interoperability, eligible hospitals, clinics and eligible professionals are able to submit to all of the systems. However, the Syndromic Surveillance System is only working on conducting onboarding outreach to hospitals but in the future, will accept information from clinics and eligible professionals as well. The Cancer Registry only accepts information from those hospitals, clinics and eligible professionals that are working with cancer patients. The Wisconsin Immunization Registry also accepts information from other sources such as Public Health Departments, pharmacies, and your employer flu shot clinics and is actually capable of sending information out back to those systems with the history of the immunization of the patients and the recommendations for the next doses of administration.
Host: Can you describe the process of submitting to one of these systems?
Jason: The way to primarily sign up is to register on the Public Health Registry Electronic Data Submission website also know as PHREDS, that’s P-H-R-E-D-S. and the PHREDS system –
Host: And who is signing up? Is it patients, is it doctors, is it –
Jason: Hospitals, clinics, eligible professionals typically are using the PHREDS registration system. Most of these point of care settings that are collecting this information can report that information to the Public Health Registries and the kind of information that PHREDS collects is like what type of system are you using, what systems do you want to report to and other technical questions like how do we go about communicating back to you as well. So, that’s primarily what you do is you register and then you would be placed in a queue in order to for a Public Health Registries specialist to outreach to you in order to conduct the onboarding process essentially.
Host: In your experience, what tips can you recommend or what’s something people should be aware of during this process of reporting to the Public Health Reporting Systems?
Jason: The most important part is the registration piece I would say. Once you’ve registered, essentially you are in this active engagement stage, unless you stop communicating with Public Health once they outreach to you. The next important piece is to be patient with Public Health Registries. There’s limited resources. Sometimes only a couple people within a Public Health Registry staff that are working on the onboarding efforts and not everyone can be onboarded at the same time. So, like you were taught in kindergarten, be patient and wait your turn.
Another recommendation is to review the onboarding documentation that might be available on the PHREDS website and complete any necessary training or paperwork for the registries that might be needed prior to us outreaching to you.
Host: Okay. So, not too cumbersome as long as you’re responding and staying on the top of the queue. So, where should people go if they want more information on the topic?
Jason: To join MetaStar and Public Health Registries and optimizing health for every individual in the state and access to additional resources about the topic that we’ve been talking about they can visit www.metastar.com/podcast. And MetaStar is spelled M-E-T-A-S-T-A-R.
Host: All right. Jason thanks so much for joining us today. That’s Jason Suchon. A Public Health Registry Project Specialist at MetaStar. Thanks for checking out this episode of MetaStar Health IT Radio. Head to www.metastar.com/podcast to get connected with Jason Suchon or another provider. If you found this podcast helpful, please share it on your social channels and be sure to check out the entire podcast library for topics that interest you.