15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/06/2012 | 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Grand Ballroom B | 1 - EHDI Program Enhancement
IHE, EHR, ADT, PIX/PDQ-Making the ABCs of Healthcare InformationTechnology (HIT) work for EHDI in 2012
Two years ago, Texas Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (TEHDI) embarked on a project to improve quality and quantity of information obtained from Birthing Facilities. The TEHDI team began with a review of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise’s (IHE) EHDI Technical Profile. The profile had been written with Centers for Disease Control guidance, peer-reviewed, modified, and implementation testing was in development. We examined the IHE EHDI Technical Profile and are implementing a simplified (stage 1) version of it. It is the TEHDI Birth Notification (BN) project. The objective was to use standards-based, information protocols to communicate demographic information automatically from birthing facilities to TEHDI.
The project’s long-term goals are twofold: to have demographic information on every birth to improve hearing health care for newborns and to document that each newborn received all appropriate care. The hope is to reduce the state’s lost to follow-up population. The standards-based protocols provide an accurate “denominator” so no hospital birth is overlooked. They improve data quality, and timeliness, reduce data entry errors and the duplicate data entry burden on hospitals.
In this presentation, the TEHDI Program will review steps taken to achieve success in this Centers for Disease Control –sponsored interoperability initiative. The topics include: how we shared what was learned by IHE in the development and testing of the EHDI Profile, the development of a stakeholder team for the TEHDI BN project, conception of the TEHDI user story, development and vetting of a prototype software tool, outreach efforts to birth facilities on EHR capabilities and use, and rollout planning. Challenges and successes will be addressed. At the end of the session, attendees with have an understanding of the IHE Profile for EHDI and a framework for planning a birth notification project for their own state.
- attendees with have an understanding of the IHE Profile for EHDI and a framework for planning a birth notification project for their own state
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Mary Gwyn Allen
(Primary Presenter,Author), Texas State Department of Health Services, MaryGwyn.Allen@dshs.state.tx.us;
Prior to joining the Texas EHDI program as the TEHDI Coordinator, Mary Gwyn Allen, M.A., served as the Project Manager for the Infant Hearing Program (AR EHDI) at the Arkansas Department of Health. She was formerly the Follow-up Consultant for the Infant Hearing Program and a Local Health Unit Administrator for the Department of Health. Prior to this, Ms. Allen was a faculty member in the Psychology Department of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Ouachita College. She has experience in psychology, research, project and grants management, and social work. She has written several publications and her biography has appeared in two volumes of Who’s Who of American Teachers.
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Mary Catherine Hess
(POC,Co-Presenter,Author), OZ Systems, mhess@oz-systems.com;
Mary Catherine Hess has been working with EHDI programs since 2002. She is employed by OZ Systems and works as an Account Manager for the Texas EHDI Program and the USVI EHDI Program. Previously, she was the Program Administrator for Rhode Island’s EHDI Program from 2001-2008 and co-chair of the CDC EHDI Data Committee from 2007-2008. She has presented at local, regional and national EHDI events on topics related to newborn hearing screening, data management and data reporting, and most recently standards-based messaging for EHDI programs. She achieved her MA in Linguistics from Gallaudet University and holds a BS in Communication Disorders. She is a certified ASL/English interpreter. Her interests include communication access issues in health care settings, assistive technology and long-term outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing children identified through the EHDI process. She is a yogi, pug lover and fan of NPR and folk music.
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Receives Salary for Employment from OZ Systems.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.