Tennessee Department of Health Updates the List of Reportable Diagnosis Codes for Drug Overdose Reporting

Published January 31, 2023

Effective January 2023, the Drug Overdose Reporting (DOR) List of Reportable Diagnosis Codes was expanded in order to capture nonfatal overdose events more accurately across the state and improve surveillance for nonfatal polysubstance overdoses. Facilities will be required to report drug overdoses containing 78 new ICD-10-CM codes under three new categories of substance (cannabis and [...]

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East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN) Selects 4medica to Reduce Duplicate Patient Records

Published January 4, 2023

Knoxville, TN, January 4, 2023 – East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN) announced today that it has engaged 4medica®, a leader in healthcare data quality and matching technology, to deploy its cloud-based Data Quality Platform to improve patient matching and health data quality. Established in 2005 and headquartered in Knoxville, etHIN reaches 80% of communities [...]

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Syndromic Surveillance Reporting for Urgent Care

Published November 1, 2022

The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is actively working to broaden syndromic surveillance beyond eligible hospitals to include urgent care facilities as more patients in Tennessee utilize these services for immediate medical needs. Syndromic surveillance data can be used to monitor and detect changes in disease frequency and guide preventive measures. Public Health uses an [...]

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Cures Act Definition of EHI Expanded to Include Additional Data

Published October 21, 2022

The Cures Act Final Rule limited the scope of electronic health information (EHI) that must be shared to data included in USCDI version 1 for approximately 18 months after the Final Rule publication date to allow stakeholders time to ramp up their information sharing capabilities and processes. On October 6th, stakeholders must begin exchanging more [...]

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NPPES Digital Contact Information

Published May 18, 2022

What is it and how you can comply with the CMS rule The 2020 CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Rule mandated a centralized directory of providers’ digital contact information be published by the National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) to improve interoperability and the efficiency and effectiveness of electronic health information exchange. While providers [...]

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