Break out Session 3: Promising Practices for Implementing Blue Button

National Association For Trusted Exchange (NATE) PHR Ignite Pilot

HHS Auditorium Sept 16th 1:45 – 4pm

Aaron Seib CEO, NATE;Contractor to theCalifornia Office of Health Information Integrity

Agenda

• Overview of NATE and SHPC• PHR Ignite Pilot • RFA in California • Pilot Use Cases

National Association For Trusted Exchange(NATE)

NATE is a consortium of states which focuses on finding common solutions to optimizing national exchange of health information.

• NATE is executing PHR Pilot with support from the ONC’s State Health Policy Consortium (SHPC).

• Please visit our website to learn more

www.nate-trust.org

PHR Ignite Pilot

• Pilot Goal - Identify and overcome policy, governance and technical challenges of transporting patient data bi-directionally between untethered PHRs (patients) and providers.

• California, Oregon and Alaska are leading pilot projects under this program

• Other member states contributing to Policy Development of this program include Nevada, Utah, Hawaii, North Dakota, Michigan and Florida

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PHR Ignite Pilot

• Pilot Deliverables – Identify and establish minimum technical, security and privacy

requirements for PHRs participating in the pilot– Develop a trust mechanism known as a “trust bundle” to facilitate the

determination of trust on the part of NATE participants interested in either sending and/or receiving information to/from a PHR source

– Identify and support PHR vendors and providers as they provide consumers with access to their data via Direct-enabled exchange

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Pilot Use Cases

• Use Case 1: Recruited providers will send structured data to a patient-subscribed NATE qualified PHR using Direct secure messaging/BlueButton+ specifications.

• Use Case 2: Patient data will be sent by the test patient from their PHR to a second provider using Direct secure messaging/BlueButton+ specifications.

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Pilot Use Case

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California RFA

• The California Office of Health Information Integrity (CalOHII) RFA

– In partnership with NATE, CalOHII is piloting the exchange of patients’ personal health records to providers using real world patients and providers.

– The goal of the pilot is to inform a roadmap for proceeding to a scalable deployment of a trusted mechanism that will enable the use of PHRs across multiple states.

– A total of $400,00.00 will be awarded to qualified entities.

– Proposals due September 13th.

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Getting involved

• NATE will be reaching out to other interested parties to contribute to the policy development that we will be tackling between now and the end of 2013.

• If you are interested in learning more please contact me at:

aaron.seib@nate-trust.org

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