We hope this Interface, our last of 2022, finds you in good health and enjoying the holidays with those you care about most. During this time of reflection and gratitude, we want to first and foremost thank you, our stakeholders, for your continued participation and investment in MiHIN, your non-profit statewide health information exchange (HIE) network.
As demand for more complete health data and interoperability accelerates, the landscape of health information exchange and health improvement is rapidly evolving. We are committed to adapting and advancing in order to respond to our stakeholders’ ever-evolving needs and use cases.
We are a learning system. We strive, as we learn, to be a trusted convener, innovative thinker, reliable technology services partner, and, ultimately, an organization that has a measurable impact on improving the value and quality of patient care, making lasting improvements in population and public health.
We look forward to working with you next year and every year after.
Have a wonderful holiday season, and a happy and healthy New Year!
MiHIN will be closed for business between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day with a team that is monitoring the Help Desk ticketing system, phone lines, and interfaces.
To reduce potential impact to our customers, we have shortened our annual freeze significantly compared to years prior. This year, a maintenance production code and feature freeze will occur 12/21/22 through 1/2/23.
During this time, MiHIN will be not be able to implement requests for changes or enhancements to our production environments.
An operational freeze will occur 12/21/22 through 1/2/23.
During this time, no new users or organizations can be introduced to, trained, or added to existing use cases, services and/or tools.
ACRS Files submitted through SFTP or DSM won’t be validated and/or loaded. If you submit ACRS files via this method please make sure to submit your valid ACRS files before Wednesday, 12/21/22 for loading.
ACRS file submissions via the MIGateway File Submission module will remain operable.
Again, the MiHIN office will be closed December 24th, 2022 through January 2nd, 2023.
If you require assistance, please submit a ticket to https://mihinhelp.refined.site/portal/50 or email help@mihin.org. If you are experiencing issues that are causing a critical or significant business impact, please call our help desk at (844) 454-2443.
We remain on schedule and have begun our Integrated Technology Environment cut-over. We anticipate this work happening through December, into January 2023.
As previously communicated, we are slowly moving production feeds to flow to our new environment and back out to Health Connect and/or Rhapsody.
While we don't expect there to be any impact beyond your receiving a different type of ACK message, please be sure to reach out to us immediately if you experience any effects.
To stay up-to-date on the migration, continue to look to this e-publication, The Interface, and bookmark our MIGRATION WEBPAGE.
Policy Updates
CMS Prior Authorization Proposed Rule
This month, CMS released their long-awaited proposed rule on Prior Authorization, Provider Access API, and Payer to Payer Exchange. Initially released in December 2020, CMS proposed an expansion of the Patient Access Final Rule. As a reminder, the CMS Patient Access Final Rule required certain Federal payers to share clinical and claims information they maintained with their enrollees or beneficiaries through the use of open APIs and mobile applications. This month, CMS decided to retract the prior proposed rule and release a new one, which would cover the same topics —and more. Below, we have included our condensed fact sheet on important portions of this rule.
MiHIN's Social Determinants of Health (Social Needs Screening) Use Case forms the foundation of data exchange from which solutions in the cross-sector data sharing space will grow. Data can be submitted to MiHIN as the statewide health information network to be shared with other care team members that have an active care relationship with the client. Providing a more complete view of a patient's social needs is meant to increase efficiency and capacity of care coordination and provide data for analysis within the context of population health, public health, and health equity.
Please note: A new version of the file specification will go into effect in January of 2023. This updated file specification was discussed during the December 14 Download session (recording - start at 1:00:11 and slides) if you would like to learn more.
If you have questions about the MiHIN Cross Sector Data Sharing Program or are new to the SDOH (Social Needs Screening) use case and would like more information, please contact Lisa Nicolaou, Cross Sector Data Sharing Program Director, at lisa.nicolaou@mihin.org.
Michigan Health Information Network Once Again Achieves DirectTrust™ HISP Accreditation
MiHIN announced it has once again achieved full accreditation through the DirectTrust™ Accreditation Program for Health Information Service Providers (HISPs). DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between providers and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination of care.
Michigan Health Information Network Once Again Achieves HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification to Manage Risk, Improve Security Posture, and Meet Compliance Requirements
The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN), Michigan’s state-designated entity for the technical, legal, secure, and private exchange of health information, today announced it has once again earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.
A monthly webinar diving into the intersection of healthcare and technology.
Our December meeting welcomed Sarah Paliani, Senior Research Associate, of NCQA to discuss the HEDIS® Social Need Screening Intervention (SNS-E). Recording and slides now available.
Upcoming Meeting:
Save the Date
Tues, Jan 17, 2023
11:30 AM- 1:00PM EST
Guest presenters from the Michigan Social Care Data HUB - Community of Practice
Eight of the nation's leading social care platform vendors have formed a Community of Practice (CoP), hosted by MiHIN, dedicated to the statewide sharing of data that documents social need idetification, referrals, interventions, and outcomes amongst care teams that span health and social care.
MiHIN CEO Tim Pletcher will be joined by Lisa Bari, CEO of Civitas Networks for Health to discuss "Leveraging HIE-powered Interstate Data Exchange to further Interoperability"
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