2007 |
- New Forums established: Behavioral Health and Rural Health; Data Managers and Users Forum is revitalized
- More New Forums: Public e-Health and Quality Reporting launched.
- Major conference themes: Personal & Electronic Health Records (Health IT),
Connecting the Community in the Commonwealth (Annual Meeting, featuring keynote speaker Mark McClellan), and
Integration of Behavioral and Physical Health Medicine (Healthmart).
- New Consumer Workshop held (Effectively Communicating Quality Data to Consumers).
- Received extension of subcontract from AHRQ to continue Privacy and Security Subcontract and
to begin to implement Consent Management Project
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2006 |
- Strategic Plan developed and approved by Board of Directors.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts awards the statewide subcontract for the AHRQ Health Information
Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) project to the Consortium.
- Craig D. Schneider, PhD, named Director of Healthcare Policy.
- Michele N. Alexanian, MBA, named Director of Finance and Administration.
- New Forums established: Clinical Networking, Electronic Health Record Implementation, and e-Rx.
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2005 |
- Consortium Executive Director Elliot M. Stone passes away unexpectedly; Louis Freedman named Interim Executive Director.
- Elliot M. Stone Memorial Scholarship Fund established and inaugural event held to launch the fund.
- Ray Campbell, JD, MPA, named Executive Director.
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2004 |
- MA SHARE established as Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
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2003 | - Consortium celebrates its 25th anniversary.
- MA SHARE program authorized by Board of Directors
- $615K Year 1 funding secured for MA SHARE - BCBSMA Cornerstone Grant
- Seven projects approved: MedsInfo-ED, Credentialing, Secure E-Mail, Pathology Database Query System, Electronic Health Records/MassSafe Electronic Patient-Centered Communications, and Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance
- Clinical connectivity architecture overseen by the CIO
- Secure Email S/MIME Gateway approach to be certified by The Open Group
- Claims Metrics in place at Fallon Community Health Plan
- Data Use Agreements initiated for sale of inpatient data - voluntary compliance with HIPAA
- Data Locator created on Web Site
- Membership reaches 150
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2002 | - Claims Performance Metrics - pilot projects initiated at hospitals and health plans.
- HIPAA Education Coordinating Committee formed -- "Roadshows" across state for Provider awareness.
- HIPAA Workshops initiated.
- Security Officers Forum created.
- Testimony to U.S. National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics.
- Comments submitted to DHHS on HIPAA Privacy Rule.
- Creating unique Physician Database for MA Health Quality Partners (MHQP) "Rewarding Results" RWJ Project.
- Consortium receives WEDI SNIP Regional Achievement Award for HIPAA education & resources.
- Consortium website receives Spring & Fall 2002 World Wide Web Health Award
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2001 | - "Using the Internet for Information about Physicians - a Report on Consumer Access" published for The Commonwealth Fund
- Comments submitted to DHHS on HIPAA Privacy Rule
- Privacy Officers Forum created
- Operations Forum created to discuss the "Business" issues associated with Information Technology (e.g. improving the provider payment policies)
- Administrative Simplification Work Group of the Massachusetts Health Care Task Force designates Consortium to act as convener for HIPAA Compliance
- Testimony to State legislature on Privacy Bills
- Consortium testifies at Division of Health Care Finance and Policy on proposed methodology for the health insurance plan report cards
- Consortium testifies at Division of Health Care Finance and Policy on Emergency Department Dataset Regulations
- HealthKey Summit in Chicago attended by 100 CIOs from 5 States.
- Consortium website receives Fall 2001 World Wide Web Health Award.
- First Observation Stay Database (FY 1999) released by Division of Healthcare Finance and Policy. Consortium prepares detailed analyses.
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2000 | - First "Healthcare & the Internet" conference
- Comments submitted to DHHS on HIPAA Privacy Rule
- Patient-centered e-Mail Guidelines published with Dr Daniel Z. Sands of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awards 2 year grant to "HealthKey" -- Regional efforts in 5 states ( MA,MN, NC,UT,WA) to test secure technologies and policies.
- The Consortium's HealthKey project - Secure Messaging - pioneers a new approach to secure, encrypted email at the organization level: "S/MIME Gateways"
- HIPAA 834 Benefit Enrollment Companion Guide released at New England Employee Benefits Council
- Background Paper requested by The Commonwealth Fund for possible new grant program. Consortium prepares: "Mobilizing Health Information Technology to Improve the Quality of Health Care"
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1999 | - Professor Paul Starr's Lecture at the 21st Annual Meeting is cited in the HIPAA Privacy regulations Preamble.
- Health Information Privacy--Web-based Resource Center created.
- First issue of "What's NeWWW" e-mail bulletin highlights new content on Consortium website.
- First Focus-of- the- Month seminars initiated with Members.
- Public Health Data Standards Consortium created in Washington, D.C. -- Massachusetts Health Data Consortium is a charter member.
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1998 | - Consortium celebrates its 20th anniversary.
- Employer ID and Security HIPAA Rule comments submitted to DHHS by Consortium workgroups.
- Electronic Eligibility Case study published to assist with ANSI ASC X12n 270/271 HIPAA Transaction.
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1997 | - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds -- HealthKey -- three statewide collaborators (Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Minnesota Health Data Institute and Seattle's Foundation for Health Care Quality) to guide providers, payers and others using the Internet for exchanging health care information.
- New England Healthcare EDI Network (NEHEN) created by leaders of the CIO Forum.
- For the Record - Protecting Electronic Health Information published by the National Academy Press with Consortium's financial support and input.
- EDI Implementation worksheets published by the Consortium's EDI Business Transactions Work Group.
- First regional alliance with CDC's standard Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS); Consortium's Clinical Dataset Work Group proposes security & medication enhancements to DEEDS
- "Health Data News" published online with guest editorials on health information exchange and privacy begins with Michael Zingg, Fidelity Investments: "Making Technology Work to Benefit Employees"
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1996 | - The Consortium releases the results of a patient privacy survey indicating that protection of computerized patient information ranges from "very strict" to "casual".
- First meeting and educational survey of Internet Professionals Forum
- HCFA's National Provider ID recommended as standard by the Consortium's Health Care Identifiers Work Group.
- "Confidentiality of health data - an exploration of principles, policies and practices" published by the Consortium's Patient Confidentiality and Privacy Work Group.
- HIPAA Awareness Campaign initiated by the Consortium's Board
- Consortium launches its website: www.mahealthdata.org
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1995 | - The Consortium's CIO Forum -- Affiliated Health Information Networks of New England -- is created with 14 original members.
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1994 | - The Consortium Board develops a new mission statement.
- The Consortium announces its intention to lead a state effort to create a sophisticated electronic "virtual" network for moving, storing and sharing patient information.
- What Information Do Consumers Need to Choose a Health Plan? -- GIC survey of State employees.
- The National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine publishes Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure and Privacy. Elliot Stone serves on IOM committee.
- Consortium Board votes to expand Membership categories
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1993 | - Ambulatory Surgery Demonstration Database with 60,000 records and 17 hospitals.
- Regional Supply of Primary Care Physicians Report for the Massachusetts Medical Society
- Survey of Massachusetts opinion leaders concerning the Clinton Health Plan's proposed Regional Data Centers
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1992 | - The Consortium acts as advisor to the DIA's Workers Compensation utilization database project.
- Business Group on Health recognizes the Consortium for its Managed Care Performance Evaluation Tool.
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1991 | - The Consortium's report on State hospital costs is released.
- Report on Top Fifty High Cost Cases by Payor is released.
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1990 | - Three national publications are released:
- The Employee Health Benefits Survey and Users Manual (funded by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans)
- Transcripts of the Health Policy Series (sponsored by Merck & Co.)
- Data Resource Guide to Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (grant from Merck Company Foundation)
- The corporate contributors campaign is chaired by Ben Holmes, General Manager of Hewlett Packard's Medical Products Group.
- Community Health Status Indicators study funded by Raytheon to the Consortium, Boston University School of Public Health and the Health Planning Council for Greater Boston.
- Study to Analyze "Severity of Illness" Software sponsored by Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals.
- Health Manpower Shortage Areas Report prepared for Massachusetts Medical Society.
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1989 | - First report on Long Term Care Insurance and Life Care Communities.
- Elders at Risk (14 articles and foreword by Marilyn Moon, PhD) published with support from Boston Foundation and Fidelity Non-Profit Foundation.
- Mothers, Infants and Children at Risk (21 articles and foreword by Julius Richmond, MD) published with support from Boston Foundation.
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1988 | - The Consortium publishes Special Report Series:
- Supply of Physicians in Massachusetts
- Attitudes of Newly Licensed Nurses
- Hospital Price Guide
- Trends in AIDS Hospitalizations
- Trends in Home Health Care and other Post-Hospital Care
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1987 | - Corporate contributors campaign chaired by John Larkin Thompson, President, Massachusetts Blue Shield, exceeds goals.
- Hospital Price Guide released to the public.
- First report on Payor Mix Trend Analysis.
- High Cost Infants analysis completed for Senator Kennedy.
- Employee Benefits Survey collaboration with Millipore Corporation.
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1986 | - First corporate contributors campaign chaired by Donald Melville, Chairman and President of Norton Company.
- First Hospital Price Guide released to Massachusetts hospitals for review and comment.
- First report of Health Care Tabs (multi-year trend analysis).
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1985 | - Variations in Nursing Costs Report, funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield, is submitted to Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
- The Consortium's Data Digest on hospital costs is released at its conference: "Hospital Charges in a Competitive Market: Strategies for Providers & Purchasers."
- National long term care database (C.O.M.P.A.R.E.) feasibility study prepared for the Benjamin Rose Institute (Ohio) and Retirement Research Foundation.
- First report of Comparative Charges by DRG and by Hospital using the first merged database--case mix and charges using FY 1983 data.
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1984 | - Online Access, a joint venture with Data Resources, Inc. -- one of the first inpatient databases in the U.S. available on-line.
- Study on Variations in Surgery released at press conference.
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1983 | - The Consortium launches an intensive comparison of costs in the state's 111 acute-care hospitals. The study also focuses on regional variations in hospital use and variations based on age and insurance carrier.
- Consortium sponsors Personal Computer seminars
- First reports on Market Position and Clinical Specialty.
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1982 | - HCFA terminates all IDD grants.
- The first Hospital Utilization Series on community-use rates is published.
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1981 | - The Integrated Data Demonstration (IDD) funded by HCFA to the Consortium, Blue Cross Blue Shield and the Rate Setting Commission.
- The first DRG Report Series published.
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1980 | - The Consortium's Board votes to revise the data sharing agreement to permit identifying hospitals without their veto.
- The first Patient Origin and Case Mix by Community studies are published.
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1979 | - 120 hospitals sign the first voluntary data sharing agreement with the Consortium.
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1978 | - The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, with Louis Freedman as Acting Executive Director, is founded as a non-profit coalition by the public and private health care organizations of the Commonwealth to develop a system for collecting, organizing and disseminating data on all hospital care in the State. (Nils Bruzelius of the Boston Globe reports that the Consortium's establishment is approved on April 30th, after 2 1/2 years of negotiations and six years of planning by the Office of State Health Planning in response to Federal initiatives.)
- The Consortium holds its first official meeting as an independently constituted non-profit corporation and elects Paul Densen, director of the Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care, as its President and selects Elliot Stone, of the state DPH, as its new Executive Director.
- On May 23rd, Governor Michael Dukakis signs special legislation: (Chapter 186) an Act Authorizing the three state agencies that are heavily in the data business: Department of Public Health, the Department of Public Welfare and the Rate Setting Commission to participate in the Consortium.
- The Consortium develops its first "core package" for members and the public: establishing a patient database containing information on all 950,000 of the state's hospital discharges, which will permit detection of patterns of disease and treatment. The Technical Review Committee is formed to examine study methodologies.
- Privacy concerns arise among the project's health care providers and the Consortium assumes a leadership role in resolving this issue.
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1976 | - Massachusetts Office of Health Planning collaborates with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on a grant for the statewide hospital care component of the Cooperative Health Statistics System (CHSS) -- later to be subcontracted to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium.
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