1. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program
September 18, 2009
Michigan Coalition for HIT

2. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Key Information

4. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Matching Requirements

5. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Eligibility Criteria
Designation letter from the Governor
Appointed State Government HIT Coordinator who is a state official and will coordinate state government participation in HIE.
Demonstration of a multidisciplinary board or commission in an advisory or governing capacity with broad stakeholder representation.
Goal must be to use information technology to improve health care quality and efficiency through the authorized and secure electronic exchange and use of health information.
Certification that it has adopted nondiscrimination and conflict of interest policies that demonstrate a commitment to transparent, fair, and nondiscriminatory participation by stakeholders.

6. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Funding Formula
Base Allocation – For all states, D.C, and Puerto Rico = $4 million
Equity Adjustment – Additional funds will be added to this base amount to account for differences in existing health care delivery environment. The following are the sources of information to be used for these equity adjustments along with the associated weights for each:
PCP Populations –(40% of total allocation)
Short‐Term (Acute) Care Hospital –(30% of total allocation)
Medically Underserved and Rural Providers –(25% of total allocation).
State Population – (15% of the total allocation).
The ONC will provide applicants with the allowable award amount before September 30.

7. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Summary

8. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Federal Roles & Responsibilities
The federal government will advance interoperability and health information exchange through a variety of regulatory and programmatic activities. HHS will:
Provide technical assistance and collaborate with states to promote, monitor and share efficient, scalable and sustainable mechanisms for HIE within and across states.
Conduct a national program evaluation and offer technical assistance for state‐level evaluations in an effort to implement lessons learned that will ensure appropriate and secure HIE resulting in improvements in quality and efficiency.
Harmonize and regulate standards and certification criteria to enable interoperability and HIE.
Advance standards‐based HIE through the development of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and establish a governance mechanism for the NHIN informed by HIE activities across states and regions

9. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program State Roles & Responsibilities
States will be expected to use their authority, programs, and resources to:
Develop and implement Strategic and Operational Plans
Develop state level directories and enable technical services for HIE within and across states.
Remove barriers and create enablers for HIE, particularly those related to interoperability across laboratories, hospitals, clinician offices, health plans and other health information trading partners.
Convene health care stakeholders to ensure trust in and support for a statewide approach to HIE.
Ensure that an effective model for HIE governance and accountability is in place.
Coordinate an integrated approach with Medicaid and state public health programs to enable information exchange and support monitoring of provider participation in HIE as required for Medicaid meaningful use incentives.
Develop or update privacy and security requirements for HIE within and across state borders.

10. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program “State Plan” Requirements

11. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program “State Plan” Requirements
States must submit and receive approval of a Strategic Plan and an Operational Plan.
ONC expects that State Plans will reflect the existing variety of HIE approaches and levels of readiness.
An assessment of the Strategic and Operational Plans will be part of the application award process if submitted with the application.
ONC will use this information to tailor each state cooperative agreement to reflect the level of readiness.
States that have a State Plan approved by the National Coordinator prior to award will begin the performance period with implementation funding.

12. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program 5 “Essential Domains”
To realize HIE states need to plan, implement and evaluate activities across five essential domains:
Governance: Convening stakeholders and creating trust and consensus on an approach for statewide HIE and to provide oversight and accountability of HIE to protect the public interest.
Finance: Identification and management of financial resources necessary to fund health information exchange.
Technical Infrastructure: The architecture, hardware, software, applications, network configurations and other technological aspects that physically enable the technical services for HIE in a secure and appropriate manner.
Business and Technical Operations: Operational and management activities including procurement, identifying requirements, process design, functionality development, project management, help desk, systems maintenance, change control, program evaluation, and reporting.
Legal/Policy: Legal and policy frameworks with which HIE is administered including and privacy security requirements, data sharing agreements, federal and state laws and regulations, and multi‐state policy harmonization activities.

13. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Application Components
A Project Abstract (1 page)
A Project Narrative (25-40 page range)
Strategic Plan (if available)
Operational Plan (if available)
Four separate 1-year budget narrative/justification
Letters of Commitment from key stakeholders
Letter from Governor

14. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Michigan’s Approach
HIE is a priority for Michigan’s Governor and Legislature
Michigan is a leader is a statewide approach for HIE
Michigan created a landmark roadmap with the MiHIN Conduit to Care and invested $10 million to implement the MiHIN Conduit to Care
Michigan has a strong foundation of HIE capacity:
HIT Commission
Health Information Privacy & Security Collaborative (HISPC)
9 MiHIN Regions
MiHIN Resource Center
Michigan has a coordinated approach to all HIT and HIE Programs in the Recovery Act

15. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Michigan’s Approach
Michigan has a strategic plan
Needs to be updated
Needs expanded information to be consistent with the “5 Essential Domains”
Michigan is working on an operational plan
Needs work to be consistent with the “5 Essential Domains”
Needs stakeholder input (equivalent to the Conduit to Care process) to fill-in and finalize

16. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Michigan’s Approach
A Project Abstract
A Project Narrative
Strategic Plan (submitting Conduit to Care but not as a final strategic plan)
Operational Plan
Four separate 1-year budget narrative/justification
Letters of Commitment from key stakeholders
Letter from Governor

17. State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program Michigan’s Approach
What needs to be done to have a complete approach for Michigan?
Technical Architecture
Business & Technical Operations Plan
Financial plan
Functioning governance structure
Privacy & Security policies for system development and use
Stakeholder engagement, feedback, input and buy-in on all components of strategic & operational plan

18. Stakeholder Engagement
A wide array of stakeholders must be engaged to give input throughout all aspects of the project
Engage the MiHIN Regional entities to build off of their significant progress
Form structured workgroups to get focused, detailed input
Hold public review and input sessions to ensure consideration of all perspectives
Utilize tools for transparency like an online work space where all documents and information are readily available

19. Michigan’s Timeline
Finalized Strategic & Operational Plans Due ~April 2010
Letter of Intent Due September 11
Applications Due October 16
Notice of Awards December 15
September
October
November
December
2009
2010
Continuous, in-depth planning to meet April 2010 Due Date
Workgroup Informational Session September 18
Cooperative Agreement Signed January 15, 2010
HIT Commission October 15
HIT Commission September 10

20. Stakeholder Engagement
What we can do before Grant due date:
Provide information about stakeholder engagement process
Overview of State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program
Initial workgroup focus and deliverables
Membership examples
Timelines

21. Stakeholder Engagement
What we will do after grant is submitted:
Form Initial Structure:
Governance/Finance Workgroup
Finance sub-group
Measurement sub-group
Technical Workgroup
Privacy/Security sub-group
Clinical Workgroup
Hold public review & input sessions on workgroup output
Provide a website that has all information, documents, meeting notices, agendas, minutes etc.
Provide sessions for HIT and HIE vendors
Workgroup sessions are not open to HIT and HIE vendors

22. Workgroup Formation Timeline
Early September – provide information about workgroups to garner interest
Late September – announce sign-up and nomination process
Mid-October – announce workgroup schedules and start meeting.

23. Workgroup Formation Principles
Open & Inclusive
Meetings are open to the public
Transparent
Meeting information will be readily available to anyone
Diverse
Workgroups will include membership from diverse representation
Scalable & Feasible
Workgroups may need to be scaled to an efficient number of voting members. Web-ex and Teleconference will be used where appropriate.

24. Governance & Finance Workgroup
Time Expectations: approx. 4 hrs./week
First Deliverables:
Establish a short-term governance structure
Provide input to updated Strategic and Operational Plans
Serve as the group to approve all workgroup work products as it goes to the Strategic and Operational plans
Establish a Finance subgroup
The finance subgroup will first determine mechanisms for meeting match requirements of the cooperative agreement program
Establish Measurement subgroup

25. Governance & Finance Workgroup Membership Examples
Physician involved in direct patient care in rural settings
CMO of major healthcare systems
Leadership from payers/insurers
Patient & consumer representatives
Hospital CEOs that are involved in an HIE effort
Senior representatives of MDIT & MDCH
Public health representatives
Medicaid representatives
Representative of major self-insured employers
Representative of Federally Qualified Health Centers
Representative of MI University/Health Professional Schools
Hospital CIO that is involved in a regional HIE effort
Non-physician clinicians

26. Technical Workgroup Time Expectations: Approx. 4 hr./week
First Deliverables:
Review of vendor Request for Proposal
Development of a Technical Architecture
Develop the standards for HIE connections to the MiHIN backbone
Develop the security and privacy standards
Perform a technical assessment of HIE stakeholders
Develop the specifications, standards and design the state wide services
Establish Privacy/Security subgroup 

27. Technical Workgroup Membership Examples*
Co-chairs (2)* – One from the state and one from a stakeholder organization
Representatives from HIEs across the state – IT Director, CIO or other technical staff
Representatives from health systems across the state – IT Director, CIO or other technical staff
Physicians and physician informaticists
Representatives payers/insurers
State system architect
Medical researchers
* Co-chairs will also serve on Governance/Finance

28. Clinical Workgroup Time Expectations: Approx. 1 hr./week
First Deliverables:
Business analysis and problem definition (qualitative and quantitative)
Solution definition and prioritization
Articulation of value proposition
Business architecture
Use case models and test cases
Functional and quality of service requirements

29. Clinical Workgroup Membership Examples*
Co-Chairs (2) – From the State of Michigan and from a stakeholder organization (preferably a clinician or clinician informaticist)
Representatives from the Department of Community Health
Representatives from Provider Organizations: Hospitals, Group Practices, Small Office Practices; these members should represent multiple practice settings and clinician roles esp. from primary care and underserved areas
Representatives from a Population or Public Health Agency
Representatives from Michigan Medicaid Health Plans
Health Services Researchers
Quality Improvement Organizations
Representatives from Patient or Consumer Organizations
Representatives from Rural Healthcare Providers
Participants in Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiatives
Representatives from Visiting Nurse Agency or Long Term Care
* Co-chairs serve on Governance/Finance

30. Get Involved www.michigan.gov/mihinworkgroups www.michigan.gov/mdch