HealthIT Answers April 24, 2022
By Brenda Akinnagbe, ONC
Editor’s Note: On April 14, 2022 at the ONC Annual Meeting the Missouri DMH LEAP team shared insight into their pilot demonstration and progress to go live with integrating health care and HCBS data.
Integrating data from health care and home and community-based services (HCBS) to improve health outcomes is of growing importance, especially as the U.S. population ages and the demand for long-term services and supports (LTSS) grows. A 2020 ONC Leading Edge Acceleration Project (LEAP) in Health Information Technology (Health IT) awardee, the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH) Division of Developmental Disabilities, seeks to address this issue.
The Missouri LEAP team focused on the use of the electronic long-term services and supports (eLTSS)...