Hurricane Helene: Public Health Department Closures

Latest updates: Hurricane Helene

Our public health departments' hours of operation may be affected by power and staffing outages. This means that some closures may not appear on the state government office delays and closings map. The health and safety of our employees and our clients remains our highest priority. We are working to get services restored as safely and quickly as possible.

Learn more about DPH's role with hurricanes, floods, and weather emergencies.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) grants an incentive payment to eligible health care professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals that can demonstrate efforts to adopt, implement or upgrade certified electronic health record technology. These incentives were established under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).

To qualify for the EHR incentive payments, hospitals and eligible providers are required to meet at least one of these four public health-related objectives during Stage 1:

  • Submission of immunization registry data
  • Submission of syndromic surveillance data
  • Submission of reportable laboratory reports
  • Submission of data to cancer registries.
     

We Want to Work With You

DPH is interested in working with eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals on public-health related meaningful use objectives. We are currently able to receive electronic submissions for the four public health-related objectives listed above for the purpose of meaningful use attestation.
 

Here are the Steps to Follow

To participate in the meaningful use process with DPH, follow these three steps:

Step 1:

Visit the Web pages below to obtain additional guidance, messaging specifications, and contact information for each public health meaningful use objective

Step 2:

Follow the appropriate link below to register your interest in beginning the attestation process.

Step 3:

Coordinate with us to schedule implementation and testing. We will issue an official certificate of test completion to acknowledge success in meeting the meaningful use public health objectives.

This page last updated February 6, 2017

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