The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is launching a sequence of reform initiatives to implement current amendments to the laws governing the Statewide Well being Info Community for New York (SHIN-NY) adopted by the state Division of Well being (DOH) in July 2024.
Because the state-designated entity (SDE) offering management and oversight to the SHIN-NY, NYeC, in partnership with DOH, is growing and executing operational, authorized, and coverage reform initiatives in help of the brand new laws. The objective is to boost the capabilities of the SHIN-NY and set up a framework for modernizing well being info trade all through the state in additional help of SHIN-NY members and New York’s public well being and Medicaid wants.
The primary reform initiative to be introduced, which is able to lay a basis for these to observe, is the implementation of a uniform Statewide Widespread Participation Settlement (SCPA) – a brand new, widespread authorized framework for all healthcare entities that take part within the SHIN-NY. The proposed SCPA will substitute the quite a few, completely different agreements which have traditionally ruled participation within the SHIN-NY via the taking part group’s regional Certified Entity (QE).
NYeC stated a single, statewide SHIN-NY participation settlement will present uniformity and cut back redundancy, enabling the SHIN-NY to offer seamless, constant statewide providers; enhance effectivity; and guarantee optimum knowledge use, below a standard set of privateness and safety requirements, for present functions in addition to New York’s public well being and Medicaid functions.
As soon as applied, all SHIN-NY QEs and members can be required to enter into the brand new SCPA. Pending NYeC Board approval, NYeC anticipates releasing the proposed SCPA for a 30-day public remark interval this month and initiating the signing course of in early 2025.
NYeC stated the adoption of the 2024 SHIN-NY regulatory reforms – the primary for the reason that authentic 2016 regulation – can even guarantee extra sturdy and consultant stakeholder engagement via an expanded Statewide Collaboration Course of (SCP), a single statewide type of affected person consent and a statewide consent registry, modernization of state-funded providers supplied to SHIN-NY members, improved efficiencies although leveraging of nationwide networks, and extra.
