Maureen Boyle, PhD Lead Public Health Advisor, Health Information Technology Center for Substance Abuse Treatment September 24, 2013 Data Standards for Behavioral Health

3 SAMHSA’S STRATEGIC INITIATIVES To reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities 1. Prevention 2. Trauma and Justice 3. Military Families 4. Recovery Support 5. Health Reform 6. Health Information Technology 7. Data, Outcomes & Quality 8. Public Awareness & Support 3

4 SAMHSA HIT Standards Development  SAMHSA has been working with the International Standards Organization Health Level 7 (HL-7) to define consensus standards for: Behavioral health information to be included in standard consolidated clinical document architecture documents (CCDA) Security & Privacy Classification System  Expanding efforts to develop standards for information sharing with social services (HUD, CJ, ACF, etc.)  We are also working with the ONC S&I workgroups for Long term coordination of care and Transitions of care to ensure that behavioral health information is included and aligned with the data standards in the BH-CCD  Standardized value sets for behavioral health related clinical quality measures

5 Standards Development  Behavioral Health CCD Workgroup bleprojectindex.cfm?action=edit&ProjectNumber=800http:// bleprojectindex.cfm?action=edit&ProjectNumber=800  Data Segmentation for Privacy acyhttp://wiki.siframework.org/Data+Segmentation+for+Priv acy  Transitions of Care %29+Initiativehttp://wiki.siframework.org/Transitions+of+Care+%28ToC %29+Initiative

6 Quality Measurement National Behavioral Health Quality Framework: pdf?WT.mc_id=EB_ _NBHQDraft pdf?WT.mc_id=EB_ _NBHQDraft