This report is a compilation of papers presented at the State Health System Interoperability Meeting sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and SAMHSA and held January 24-25, 2007. 

From the report:

On January 24 - 25, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) sponsored a meeting on State Health System Interoperability in Washington, DC. The meeting had support from the CMS Division of State Systems and SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and was facilitated by Thomson Medstat under a contract to SAMHSA, The Integrated Database Project (IDB). The impetus for the conference was the CMS/SAMHSA initiative that has provided support to projects that use health information technology to create shared data systems that include information from Medicaid, MH/SA agencies, and other state human services departments. Its goal was to foster the development of a community of state and federal partners interested in learning from each other to improve Medicaid behavioral health outcomes based, in part, upon improved data sharing.

Full report: Increasing Interoperability in Health Information Systems for Medicaid, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Treatment.pdf (351.56 kb)

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2007). Increasing interoperability in health information systems for Medicaid, mental health and substance abuse treatment: a compilation of papers presented at the conference January 24-25, 2007. Thomson Medstat by contract.