Position your facility now to take advantage of upcoming financial opportunities
In early 2009, President Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Act addresses various aspects relating to the use of health information technology (HIT), including providing for federal funding by way of grants and incentive payments in order to promote HIT implementation.
The program will facilitate and expand the electronic movement and use of HIT among organizations according to nationally-recognized standards currently under development. Such programs include:
- Purchase of certified EHR technology
- Enhanced utilization of certified EHR technology
- Personnel training in the use of such technology
- Improvement of the secure electronic exchange of health information
While many details of the program are still being finalized, acting now to facilitate electronic medical records has the potential to position facilities to take advantage of upcoming financial opportunities. 3M has more than 25 years of experience and expertise in creating a wide range of health information systems and methodologies that support the electronic health record and health information exchange - and our involvement continues as part of this movement.
3M supports the electronic health record
3M solutions support the electronic health record by facilitating the electronic capture of medical data at multiple origination points using our speech recognition, transcription, and document management solutions. We provide semantically interoperable and interchangeable discrete clinical data elements through our 3M Care Innovation product suite, which includes the 3M™ Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD), 3M™ Clinical Data Repository (CDR), and 3M™ Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI), which also enables a record locator service (RLS).
Additionally, 3M Consulting Services and 3M data analytics and reporting applications provide assistance and guidance in accurately and efficiently collecting, reporting, transmitting, and analyzing quality measures.
3M supports Health Information Exchange (HIE)
3M has over 10 years of experience seamlessly integrating data from multiple care locations into enterprise-wide, longitudinal patient records with commercial clients. Our clients include:
Maine’s HealthInfoNet: 3M is the prime vendor for the Maine nonprofit HIE, HealthInfoNet. This groundbreaking HIE system is designed to connect Maine's 36 hospitals, several thousand physicians and the state's public health infrastructure over the next several years. Over time, HealthInfoNet will expand to other providers across the state.
Kentucky’s LouHIE: 3M was recently chosen as the prime vendor for LouHIE, the HIE planned for Kentucky’s Greater Louisville area. LouHIE will offer free health record banking services to all 1.2 million citizens and full-service hospitals of the Greater Louisville area.
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Military Health System: The 3M Care Innovation product suite provides the 3M™ Clinical Data Repository, 3M™ Healthcare Data Dictionary, and 3M™ Enterprise Master Person Index as the foundation for the DoD’s Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA). Used in 103 military treatment facilities and over 800 clinics worldwide, the AHLTA system is one of the largest semantically interoperable EHRs in the world.
Large, multi-facility, integrated healthcare delivery systems, including ProMedica Health Systems (Toledo, Ohio)—rated the #1 integrated delivery network in the nation by Modern Healthcare—and the University of North Carolina Healthcare System (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
Additional Information:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF 1.08 MB)
HIMSS ARRA Analysis and Call for Action
HFMA's Legislative Soundbites: An Analysis of the SCHIP Bill and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 as They Impact Healthcare Providers
