About the Utah Digital Health Service Commission
The Utah Digital Health Service Commission is a governor-appointed statutory policy advisory body (§26-9f). Its mission is to facilitate and promote the adoption of the secure, effective and efficient exchange of electronic health data and services, as a means to reduce health care costs, enhance quality, increase access, and improve medical and public health services.
Meetings
January 10, 2019 Meeting: Agenda
Handouts: Medical Cannabis (Quick Facts) – Rich Oborn, Summary of Electronic Verification System Requirements – Rich Oborn, Medical Cannabis Act Implementation – Rich Oborn, Goal 1 Objectives – Teresa Rivera and Sarah Woolsey, Goal 2 Objectives – Teresa Rivera and Sarah Woolsey, Opioid monitoring and the Controlled Substance Database: 1) Overview – Anna Fondario 2) Utah’s Controlled Substance Database (CSD): PatientPrescriber Dashboard, &CSD-EHR Integration Updates – Melanie Wallentine and Jon Reid 3) Opioid Community Dashboards – Internal and External – Naresh Sundar Rajan
March 7, 2019 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: Goal 2 Objectives – Teresa Rivera, Goal 3 Objectives – Teresa Rivera, Information Blocking NPRM – Teresa Rivera,
Interoperability and Patient Access – Teresa Rivera, UHIN-Utah Health IT Day – Teresa Rivera, R380-77 ThSisU- Rule – Matt Hoffman and Sid Thornton, ThSisU Update – Matt Hoffman and Sid Thornton
May 2, 2019 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: All-Payer Claims Database 2019 Update – Sterling Petersen, Chronic Disease Surveillance Projects – Theron Jeppson, Comagine Health and State HIT Plan Goal 4 – Sarah Woolsey, Deep Dive – Goal 4 – Teresa Rivera
July 11, 2019 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: Public Meeting Act Training – Micah Vorwaller, Utah Digital Citizen Integration Project (SB137) – Dave Fletcher, HB 387 Draft Report Review – Navina Forsythe, Update HIT Plan – Navina Forsythe, CMS Proposed Rules Summary – Teresa Rivera, ONC Proposed Rules Summary – Teresa Rivera, CARIN Code of Conduct for Patient apps – Teresa Rivera, Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Draft – Teresa Rivera
September 5, 2019 Meeting: Agenda Minutes Recording
Handouts: HIT Strategic Plan
November 7, 2019 Meeting: Agenda Minutes Recording
Handouts: Health Care Delivery Measures – Mark Dalley, Randall Rupper and Preston Marx, HIT Infrastructure Measures – Todd Bailey, Peter Hannon and Ken Schaecher, Innovation and Research Measures – Sarah Woolsey and Navina Forsythe, Patient Involvement Measures – Ben Hiatt, Henry Gardner and Patricia Barrus
January 4, 2018 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: State HIT Plan Measures by Sarah Woolsey, Legislative Updates by Wu Xu
March 1, 2018 Meeting: Agenda Recording 1 Recording 2
Handout: Connecticut’s experience to date with CancelRx, opportunity for learning and partnering by Dr. Tom Agresta
May 3, 2018 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: Volunteer Care Clinic by Clyde M Stauffer IV, ONC Draft Trusted Exchange Framework by Teresa Rivera
July 12, 2018 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts:
Consumer-Directed Exchange (CDEx): A New Paradigm for Health Information Exchange by Andrew Croshaw and David Lee
Updates on the Utah Statewide Health IT Strategic Plan by Sarah Woolsey and Teresa Rivera (three handouts) Handout 1, Handout 2, Handout 3
September 13, 2018 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: State HIT Dashboard by Mark Hiatt, Telemedicine: Opportunities, Barriers and FutureDirections by Peter Hannon
November 1, 2018 Meeting: Agenda
Handouts: Goal 1 by Henry Gardner and Sarah Woolsey, Utah’s POLST and ePOLST Initiatives by Rob Ence, Emmie Gardner, Alan Ormsby, Deepthi Rajeev and Iona Thraen
January 5, 2017 Meeting: Agenda
Handouts: Digital Health Service Commission 2016-2018 Planning Worksheet by Henry Gardner, Article on Declining Health by Henry Gardner, The ThSisU Advisory Committee by Wu Xu, Claims Data Reporting to UDOH and Issues of All Payer Claims Data (APCD) by Denise Love and Norman Thurston, Claims Data Exchange Between Providers and Payers in Utah by Teresa Rivera, Review of Measures for HIT Goals in the Utah Health IT Strategic Plan by Sarah Woolsey
March 2, 2017 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: Using Data to Speed Outreach by Lee Spears, Mission Health Services by Gary Kelso, Review of Measures for HIT Goals in the Utah Health IT Strategic Plan by Sarah Woolsey
May 4, 2017 Meeting: Agenda
Handouts: Introduction to HL7 Standards, Challenges of Clinical Data Exchange by Stan Huff
July 20, 2017 Meeting: Agenda
Handouts: Review of Measures for HIT Goals in the Utah Health IT Strategic Plan by Sarah Woolsey , Efficiency of Payment System: Timeliness, Pre-authorization and Post-adjudication by Preston Marx, HIT 90/10 IAPD Report by Iona Thraen, Project Pivotal by Henry Gardner
January 7, 2016 Meeting: Agenda Handouts Minutes
March 3, 2016 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handouts: Clinical Data Needs for Population Health by Karen Coats, Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance by Theron Jeppson, Meaningful Use Public Health Measure: Submitting Electronic Immunization Data to USIIS by Establishing an EHR-USIIS HL7 Interface by Nancy McConnell, Newborn Hearing Screening Results and Diagnostic Reports Exchange Project by Stephanie McVicar and Krysta Badger
May 17, 2016 Meeting: Agenda Minutes
Handout: The ONC Site Visit for the HIE Grant by Sarah Woolsey
July 7, 2016 Meeting: Agenda
Handouts: HIT Strategic Goals: Projects (Strategies) & Objectives Defined by Iona Thraen, Update on the Utah Health IT Strategic Plan by Wyatt Packer,A Utah Mental Health Confidential Information Law by Sarah Woolsey
Staff Support
The Utah Department of Health’s Center for Health Data and Informatics (CHDI) provides staff support to the Commission.
Commission Documents
- Review of Measures for HIT Goals in the Utah Health IT Strategic Plan
- Utah HIT Strategic Plan 2016-2020 (Approved 7-12-2018)
- The State of Utah Health IT Implementation Dashboard 2017-2020 (Updated September 2018)
- Utah’s HIT Vision, Principle, and Priorities: 2015-2020
- DHSC Recommendations Letter (July 14, 2014)
- White paper on Enhancing Privacy and Security of Protected Health Information in the State of Utah: Through Education, Training, and Technical Assistance | Letter from the Chair (December 31, 2012)
- Recommendations to establish a statewide Secure Patient Directory | Letter from the Chair (August 8, 2011)
Members

VA Medical Center

Representative of a Licensed Health Care Facility

Digital Health Service Advocate


Rural Health Consultant
Uintah Basin Healthcare
Member Uses Digital Health Service in Serving
Medically Underserved Population
Mountainlands Community Health Center

Digital Health Service Consumer Advocate

Mental or Behavioral Health Representative

Not Involved with Digital Health Service

Representative of the Health Insurance Industry