Description:

Understanding health information exchange (HIE) can be challenging, especially given the prevalence of unclear information in behavioral health. To address this, OPA—an HIE-neutral organization—convened a focus group of our senior members, with input from Mark Jones, to identify key questions that psychologists need clarified to better understand the value of HIE for their practices

Join Mark Jones, MS, MBA, LPC, LMFT—Senior HIE Consultant at the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality (OFMQ)—a pioneering leader in building the secure exchange of mental health information in Oklahoma for more than 16 years, from the state’s first HIE (SMRTNet) to the current MyHealth Access Network—for a fact-based, research-informed discussion tailored to your practice questions

What you will learn

• Clinician and client control over shared data
  
• HIE value for safety, diagnosis, treatment, and efficiency
  
• Insights into costs and benefits of OKSHINE
  
• Ethical and privacy considerations
  
• Discussing HIE participation with clients to strengthen your practice and community
  

Attendees receive: 1 CEU hour, presentation slides, webinar recording, and a Mental Health HIE Office Manual.

Register now to get clear, unbiased answers on HIE, built from the real questions Oklahoma psychologists are asking.

MEET YOUR SPEAKER:

Mark Jones is a state and nationally recognized expert in Health Information Exchange, with a focus on improving integrated medical and behavioral healthcare. As an AHRQ and HHS Principal Investigator in 2006, he organized and led the development of Oklahoma’s SMRTNet, an HHS‑recognized national model health information exchange connecting over four million patients and more than 500 providers. He then helped build and operate MyHealth Access Network and worked to integrate SMRTNet and MyHealth as Oklahoma’s statewide HIE. Mark has directly shaped HIE initiatives in four states, presented at five national webinars, and has been invited to speak at institutions including three presentations to MD Anderson Cancer Center, including a live demonstration of SMRTNet.

In addition to his HIE work, Mark served as a county health administrator and project leader for the Oklahoma State Commissioner of Health. In that role, he hosted three CDC projects, led a two‑day quality management training for 2,400 employees resulting in 17 regional public health improvement plans, directed a confidential agency‑wide OSDH employee survey with numerous follow‑up actions, helped to establish state bioterrorism policy and the replacement of the OSDH software system.                                                    

Mark also has an MBA and is licensed LPC and LMFT with over twenty years experience in public practice and six years in part time private practice using medical records in a physicians’ office. He also is trained in neurocognitive assessment and provided trauma care in the Maui fires and Oklahoma tornados for the Red Cross. Since 2011, he has ensured that mental health health information exchange has been continuously operational in Oklahoma state HIEs. He now provides HIE training to mental health providers across the state as Senior Mental Health HIE Consultant for the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

Disclaimer: This session is informational and the content is not endorsed by OPA. We are always open to collaboration and cooperation in letting psychologist and others who employ psychologist have valuable information and perspectives.