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Thank you for your participation in the Alliance for Home Health Quality & Innovation's Health IT Survey. All results will be kept confidential and aggregated and your information will be kept confidential. We are collecting this information only to inform the Alliance's work to pursue health information exchange. Your feedback will be used to inform the Alliance's public comments to HHS, CMS, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

We expect the survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Should you have questions during the course of the survey, please feel free to contact the Alliance's Director of Strategic Initiatives & Communications, C. Grace Whiting at (202) 239-3983 or [email protected].

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How would you describe your organization?
 
Home health provider
 
Home health and hospice provider
 
Other (Please Describe)
 
 
 
 
How many patients did your agency care for in 2012?
   
 
 
 
What is the typical payer mix of the patients you serve? Please check all that apply.
 
Medicare FFS
 
Medicare Advantage
 
Medicaid
 
Private Payers
 
Grants/Contributions
 
Other
 

 
 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) are considering new regulations to encourage the exchange of electronic health information between post-acute care providers, like home health and hospice, and acute-care providers, like eligible physicians and hospitals.

Is your organization in favor of health information exchange between home health and other care settings?
 
Yes
 
No
 
Comments:
 
 
 
 
Would your organization support federal regulatory requirements for home health to exchange patient health data with other care settings?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
 
If your organization supports regulation to incentivize health information exchange, which of the following methods would your organization support? Please check all that apply.
 
Home health should receive incentives similar to those received by hospitals and physicians under the Meaningful Use program
 
Requirements should be phased in over time (a period of years)
 
The program requiring health information exchange between home health and other settings should be optional rather than mandatory
 
None of the above
 
Comments
 

 
 
 
Which of the following federal regulatory approaches to encouraging or requiring home health agencies to participate in HIE would you support? Please rank in order of most favorable to least favorable, 1 being the most favorable and 7 being the least favorable.
Making HHA participation in HIE a condition of participation
Making HHA participation in HIE a pay-for-performance incentive
Requiring HHAs to use e-specified measures of care coordination that encourage electronic sharing of summary records through CMS’s quality reporting programs
Creating new Accountable Care Organization requirements that require the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records to determine ACO eligibility for shared savings/shared losses (beyond current rules which use MU as a quality measure)
Encouraging HIE through demonstration projects like the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, Pioneer ACOs, and the State Innovation Model Initiative
Incorporating HIE into new payment models for state programs for dual eligible, such as the Capitated Financial Alignment Model
None of the above
 
 
 
Do you have any additional comments regarding home health and proposed regulatory methods that are intended to incentivize health information exchange?
   
 
 
 
The next questions ask about your organization’s capacity to capture, send, and receive electronic health information for your patients.

Does your organization use an electronic record to capture clinical information about your patients during their period of care delivery with your organization?
 
Yes
 
No
 
Comments