From Don.Oliver@DOH.WA.GOV Mon Nov 29 14:26:28 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA26692 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:26:27 -0800 Received: from wagov-exchange1.wa.gov (hub1.dis.wa.gov [147.55.104.40]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id OAA25931 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:26:27 -0800 Received: by hub1.dis.wa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:27:05 -0800 Received: from mail1.doh.wa.gov ([192.230.11.132]) by wagov-exchange1.wa.gov with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id WNGP7C1X; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:26:56 -0800 Received: by mail1.doh.wa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:25:34 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Oliver, Don" To: "'ph-assess@u.washington.edu'" Subject: FW: [PH-CONSORTIUM-L] HIPAA Data Standards Educational Conference Call, Dec 7, 1999 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:25:49 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Donald Oliver Health Service Administrator Office of the Assistant Secretary Environmental Health Programs fyi -----Original Message----- This should be an interesting teleconference. I hope you will consider participating. ***This message may be confidential. If you received it by mistake, please notify the sender and destroy the message. All messages to and from the Department of Health may be disclosed to the public.*** Vicki Hohner Hospital and Patient Data Center for Health Statistics P.O. Box 47811 1102 S.E. Quince St. Olympia, WA 98504-7811 phone: (360) 236-4211 fax: (360) 664-8579 vicki.hohner@doh.wa.gov -----Original Message----- From: Denise Love [mailto:DLovehda@AOL.COM] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 5:08 PM To: PH-CONSORTIUM-L@LIST.NIH.GOV Subject: [PH-CONSORTIUM-L] HIPAA Data Standards Educational Conference Call, Dec 7, 1999 Please Join Us--Instructions at the end of this email The National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) is hosting an educational teleconference session on HIPAA Administrative Simplification Provisions and what you should know about the standards setting process. This educational session is funded by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on behalf of the Public Health Consortium and is a part of a study NAHDO is conducting to evaluate priorities for encounter data standards for public health and research applications. All interested parties are invited to participate in this call. You don't have to be a member of NAHDO and we encourage you to forward this invitation to your staff, business partners, and others who are concerned with administrative simplification issues. Instructions on how to join are included in this email below. DATE: December 7, 1999 TIME: 1 P.M. EST (12:00 P.M. CST) (11 A.M. MST) (10 A.M. PST) FACULTY: Jan Root, Ph.D., Standards Manager, Utah Health Information Network Robert Davis, MA., SPARCS Manager, NYDOH and Member of the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) Both are Co-Chairs of the X12N Health Care Data Modeling Task Group 3, Work Group 2 MODERATOR: Denise Love, MBA, Executive Director, NAHDO Agenda: Introductions and Public Health Consortium Background, Denise Love The National Standards Process: Why? How does it work? How can it work for states, industry, research, public health. Case Study: How public health and industry can work together to implement standards. What are the benefits? Challenges? Open Discussion: Questions/Comments The agenda and information about this call, along with Power Point slides will be posted on the nahdo website for downloading or viewing during this conference call: www.nahdo.org. To reduce the cost to NAHDO, we ask that participants from the same agency call from one speaker phone. We will provide instructions on how to mute the phone to reduce background noise and how you can join in on the discussion from the comfort of your own agency! Please RSVP to NAHDO by December 3, 1999, close of business, with your intent to participate. (cchen@nahdo.org or call 801.587-9104) This will facilitate coordination of this call. Conference America Call in number: 1-888-318-6428 Security code: NAHDO (the call will be recorded and the recording will be made available to those unfortunate few who cannot make the call on December 7. A summary of the call will also be posted on NAHDO's website. This is an important topic for the entire health care industry and NAHDO is working to identify what extra-billing data elements states are collecting as a part of their statewide health care evaluation systems, what commonalities are present, and gain consensus on definitions and priorities for integrating essential data elements into the national standards setting process. NAHDO and the Public Health Consortium feel it is essential for you and your staff to understand what this process is and how it can work for you, and how your peers are preparing for the implementation of these standards. We look forward to your participation. Other sites of interest: What is the Public Health Consortium? http://www.lewin.com/hipaa/index.html National Uniform Billing Committee: http://www.nubc.org/ Utah Health Information Network www.uhin.com Data Interchange Standards Association: www.disa.org/ This message was distributed from the NAHDOLIST: a listserve to announce hot topics and events to NAHDO members and partners. If you do not want to be on this list or if you want to change your email address, please send an email, with your request to: dlove@nahdo.org .