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2000 CIS S 1413
TITLE: Too Much
Information? The Impact of OASIS on Access to Home Health Care
CIS-NO: 2000-S141-3
SOURCE: Committee on Aging, Special.
Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-289
DATE: May 24, 1999
LENGTH: iii+134 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1009-B-01; 1009-C-01
SUDOC: Y4.AG4:S.HRG.106-289
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-9123
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-7. Hearing to examine concerns of medicare home
health care providers about Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
scheduled implementation of the outcome and assessment
information set (OASIS), including concerns about patient
privacy.
OASIS is a home health care
medical data collection and analysis system demonstration
project developed to improve medicare patient outcomes, and will become
mandatory on Oct. 1, 2000.
Supplementary material (p. 111-134)
includes submitted statements and correspondence.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Medicare home health care
medical data collection system, implementation issues
DESCRIPTORS:
MEDICARE;
HOME HEALTH SERVICES; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INFORMATION
SERVICES; MEDICAL REGULATION; GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY; RIGHT OF
PRIVACY; DEMONSTRATION AND PILOT PROJECTS; HEALTH CARE
FINANCING ADMINISTRATION
00-S141-3 TESTIMONY NO: 1
May 24, 1999 p. 10-91
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
KAIL, CYNTHIA L. (Associate Administrator/Public Health
Director, Greene County Medical Center, Jefferson, Iowa)
WRIGHT, KRISTY (President/CEO, Visiting Nurses
Association, Western Pennsylvania)
CONLIN, JUDITH A.
(Director, Iowa Department of Elder Affairs)
SHAUGHNESSY,
PETER W. (Director, Center for Health Services and Policy Research, University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
PYLES, JAMES C.
(representing American Psychoanalytic Association and Home Health Services and
Staffing Association)
TALER, GEORGE (Dr.) (President,
American Academy of Home Care Physicians)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Problems with OASIS, including burdensome
nature of data collection requirements; concerns that OASIS could compromise the
privacy of home health care patients; negative experiences of
OASIS demonstration program participants, with recommendations; response to
concerns about OASIS, with assurances that patient outcomes will improve under
program.
Elaboration on concerns about OASIS effectiveness
and patient privacy issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medicare home health care medical data
collection system, implementation issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
GREENE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER, JEFFERSON,
IOWA
00-S141-3 TESTIMONY NO: 2 May
24, 1999 p. 91-109
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
KANG, JEFFREY L. (Dr.) (Director, Office of Clinical
Standards and Quality, HCFA)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Description of OASIS demonstration program implementation;
issues related to upcoming mandatory use of OASIS by medicare home health care
providers.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medicare home
health care medical data collection system, implementation
issues
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
