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Best Practices for successful EHR implementation from a Provider - November 28, 2010
Tampa Florida -- Right people, right processes, right change management and right technology – these are the "four buckets" that one expert says her list of top 10 internal factors for implementing an EHR fall into. Without all the components, she says, it is very difficult for organizations to succeed.
Lisa Jenkins is a principal with Tampa Florida - based Sencilo HealthIT Solutions's and is a provider with more than 15 years of experience in healthcare and information technology. She shared with Healthcare IT News her top 10 list, which she says has been generated from her own experiences and those of her clients:
1. Right Leadership
•Top-level leadership unwaveringly committed to make this an organization priority.
•Clinical and operational executives accountable for success are visible and present to demonstrate solid commitment.
Jenkins says when an organization is considering a technology change, it should take a top-down approach. It should, for example, start with the hospital's board, but should include all the members of an organization. "They have to understand that is it is an organizational priority," she said, and that it is a "transition for the entire organization."
2. Shared Vision
•A shared vision is understood and embraced by the organization.
• Patient safety is at the forefront.
•Goals and benefits are clearly defined, meaningful and measurable.
•Organization knows what success looks like and how to achieve it.
Jenkins recommends organizations hold their own "vision sessions" where key stakeholders come together to talk about how they envision the technology can improve patient safety and care.
3. Right Culture
•Organization prepares, supports and sustains people through effective change management for a culture of change.
"You have to provide the right resources in terms of equipment, technology, education and training. This is a huge undertaking," Jenkins said, but "this journey of change prepares them for other changes in the future."
•Up-front planning identifies potential roadblocks, areas of resistance and facilitates embracing change.
"Resistance comes from degree of change this requires," she says. There is also resistance from clinicians who believe this technology is not here to stay, and there has to be a commitment to learning the new technology. "It takes time to learn to use them [the technologies] efficiently and receive the benefits," added Jenkins.
4. Governance
•Efficient, clear decision-making structures are in place.
5. Physicians, nurses and key stakeholders are engaged early and accountable to lead the clinical transformation
•Clinicians lead, design and champion new workflow supported by enabled technology from gloStream built on Microsoft Office.
•Clinicians work in synch with IT department to translate technology requirements.
6. Resources
• Adequate finances, technical infrastructure, and resources are committed for the long haul – this is a journey not a destination.
• Clinicians supported with dedicated time to participate in planning, workflow redesign and ongoing education.
7. Clinical Content Standardization
•Orders management, clinical documentation and clinical decision support development standardized.
•Decisions based on best practices and evidence-based medicine.
"Standardization is a goal that most organizations are trying to achieve, but it is a tough one, particularly if you have many organizations," Jenkins says. She recommends bringing together different constituencies, and looking at what they have for standards and then evaluating them against best practice and evidence-based medicine. A good starting point, she says, is using a third party vendor tool, which already has a lot of content.
8. Realistic Time Lines and Expectations
• Maintains momentum and enthusiasm.
• Prevents scope creep and manages expectations.
• Pace moves to foster success.
9. Effective Training and Communication Plan
•Targets right group, with right message, at the right time.
• Provides "just in time" mandatory role-based scenario training for provisioning.
"Just in time training or JIT is training close enough to go live that clinicians don't forget it," said Jenkins. In other words, "use it so they don't lose it." She says this requires more than just training of functionality of the system, it needs to relate to the role that we [clinicians] have, in order to make it meaningful." The training for docs may be different than for nurses she said. "The content has to fit the type of role they perform in patient care," Jenkins added.
•Follow-up incremental training provided after "go live" with good feedback mechanisms.
10. Right Vendor Partnership Relationship
•EHR meets Meaningful Use Certification, and functionality supports organization goals and clinician workflow from companies like gloStream.
For more information please call (877) 904-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Connect You to the Health Community"
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money Âand lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Looking for the best electronic health record (EHR) software money can buy? Look no further. Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a best-in-class certified reseller for gloStream and Allscripts MyWay. Allscripts MyWay is the leader in electronic health record/electronic medical record (EMR) software in the market today. Recently merged with Eclipsys, and formerly known as Misys, Allscripts MyWay provides everything your medical practice needs for electronic documentation, practice management (PM), electronic prescribing, drug utilization review and interaction, scheduling, maintaining patient demographics, insurance verification, physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) tracking, billing and claims management, report and statement generation, and more all designed to meet meaningful use guidelines. Currently, CCHIT-certified, Allscripts MyWay is perfectly poised to provide everything you need for successfully performing EHR/EMR and electronic prescriptions (eRX).
Benefits of implementing EHR and PM solution are multifaceted. First, incorporating an EHR/PM solution enables you to provide better, quality of care to your patients. Connecting with other healthcare providers, pharmacies and laboratories, consulting with best-practice guidelines, following up on Health Maintenance Alerts, verifying drug utilization and interaction all promote optimal patient care. Second, successful utilization of an EHR/PM solution promotes operational efficiency and increases productivity. Third, effective execution of an EHR and PM solution enables your practice to demonstrate meaningful use and capitalize on stimulus monies set forth for electronic prescription and EHR use.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is connecting information technology (IT) and medical practice for improved patient care, enhanced efficiency and optimal clinical outcomes.
Faced with the challenge of providing higher quality healthcare, meeting meaningful use guidelines and containing rising costs with shrinking reimbursements, today’s medical providers have an advantage like never before”the integration of IT and medicine.
Designed for medical practices with 1 to 9 physicians, Allscripts MyWay (recently merged with Eclipsys, formerly Misys) delivers three critical attributes:
Simple“ intuitive, easy-to-use, and created to work the way you do, Allscripts MyWay software offers unique features like adaptive learning, customization-on-the-fly, and template-free charting
• Complete – an integrated electronic solution of scheduling, insurance verification, electronic documentation (EHR/EMR), electronic prescriptions (eRX), Health Maintenance Alerts, PQRI/E&M tracking, claims and practice management (PM) Affordable“ customized to fit your IT needs and operational budget
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for health care professionals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for implementation and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR). Eligibility requirements include, but are not limited to:
Computerized physician order entry for at least 80 percent of all orders
Ability to electronically check for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-formulary interactions to make prescribing drugs safer
Maintaining a "problem list of current and active diagnoses" for patients
Use of electronic prescriptions at least 75 percent of the time
Listing of patient demographic data
Recording of vital signs
Electronic verification of insurance eligibility
Electronic filing of insurance claims
Ability to provide electronic copies of health records to patients
Ability to exchange clinical information with other providers in an electronic format
Ability to submit immunization data electronically
Based in Orlando, Florida, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions provides HIPAA-compliant services and Best-in-Class, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) products for connecting (IT) and healthcare to create One Community United for Healing.
Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Ft. Lauderdale, Naples, Sarasota, Florida Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Albany, Valdosta, Georgia
Montgomery, Birmigham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Charleston, Spartensburg, Greenville, Innes, South Carolina Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Richmond, Virginia Beach, Virginia Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Tennessee
Frankfort, Louisville, Cinncinati, Kentucky West Virginia New, York, Albany, Rochester, New York
Newark, New Jersey Maryland Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New Hampshire Connecticut Vermont
Boston, Massachusetts Augusta, Bangor, Portland, Maine Cinncinati, Columbus, Ohio
Chicago, Illinois Jackson, Mississippi New Orleans Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Lubbock, Ft. Worth, Waco, Texas Arkansas St. Louis, Missouri Dover, Delaware Rhode Island
HHS to identify by name all private practices experiencing a breach affecting 500 or more - November 21, 2010
Orlando Florida -- As you know, HIPAA-covered entities experiencing a security breach are obligated to notify affected individuals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and, in some cases, the media. When a breach affects 500 or more individuals, the covered entity must report the incident to HHS within 60 days of discovery.
HHS, in turn, provides a brief summary of the event on its website at www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/postedbreaches.html. To date, HHS has listed private practices anonymously, identifying them only as “Private Practice.” HHS took the position that private practices could not be specifically named on the website because they are identifiable as “individuals” within the meaning of the Privacy Act, which would potentially require the practice’s consent prior to listing it by name. Pursuant to the Privacy Act, HHS may designate its publication of breaches, including naming private practices, as a “routine use” of the information such that prior consent is not required for the publication.
Accordingly, on April 13, HHS published a Federal Register notice stating its intention to start identifying private practices by name on its breach website, designating such publication as a “routine use” of the information under the Privacy Act.
Although it has yet to do so, HHS has been entitled to name private practices (both prospectively and retroactively) since May 23, 40 days from publishing its Federal Register notice. Private practices (and other HIPAA-covered entities) should take steps to mitigate the risk of a security breach. Although a breach can occur in a variety of ways, almost half of the breaches reported on the HHS website were caused by lost or stolen electronic portable devices, such as laptops. In addition, BNA’s Privacy Law Watch reports that 80% of medical identity theft cases are caused by health organizations’ staff. As a result, portable media and dishonest employees are among the most likely causes of a security breach. HIPAA covered entities also should implement a written procedure to respond to suspected breaches, as mandated by recent revisions to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. A sound procedure will help covered entities, including private practices, respond promptly to suspected breaches, enabling them to meet the 60-day reporting deadline if their investigation of the breach determines it must be reported to individuals and HHS.
For more information please call (877) 904-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Connect You to the Health Community"
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT
Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology
resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money Âand lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Looking for the best electronic health record (EHR) software money can buy? Look no further. Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a best-in-class certified reseller for gloStream and Allscripts MyWay.
Allscripts MyWay is the leader in electronic health record/electronic medical record (EMR) software in the market today. Recently merged with Eclipsys, and formerly known as Misys, Allscripts MyWay provides everything your medical practice needs for electronic documentation, practice management (PM), electronic prescribing, drug utilization review and interaction, scheduling, maintaining patient demographics, insurance verification, physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) tracking, billing and claims management, report and statement generation, and more all designed to meet meaningful use guidelines. Currently, CCHIT-certified, Allscripts MyWay is perfectly poised to provide everything you need for successfully performing EHR/EMR and electronic prescriptions (eRX). Benefits of implementing EHR and PM solution are multifaceted. First, incorporating an EHR/PM solution enables you to provide better, quality of care to your patients. Connecting with other healthcare providers, pharmacies and laboratories, consulting with best-practice guidelines, following up on Health Maintenance Alerts, verifying drug utilization and interaction all promote optimal patient care. Second, successful utilization of an EHR/PM solution promotes operational efficiency and increases productivity. Third, effective execution of an EHR and PM solution enables your practice to demonstrate meaningful use and capitalize on stimulus monies set forth for electronic prescription and EHR use.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is connecting information technology (IT) and medical practice for
improved patient care, enhanced efficiency and optimal clinical outcomes.
Faced with the challenge of providing higher quality healthcare, meeting meaningful use guidelines and containing rising costs with shrinking reimbursements, todays medical providers have an advantage like never before”the integration of IT and medicine.
Designed for medical practices with 1 to 9 physicians, Allscripts MyWay (recently merged with
Eclipsys, formerly Misys) delivers three critical attributes:
Simple intuitive, easy-to-use, and created to work the way you do, Allscripts MyWay software offers unique features like adaptive learning, customization-on-the-fly, and template-free charting
Complete an integrated electronic solution of scheduling, insurance verification, electronic
documentation (EHR/EMR), electronic prescriptions (eRX), Health Maintenance Alerts, PQRI/E&M
tracking, claims and practice management (PM) Affordable“ customized to fit your IT needs and
operational budget
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for health care professionals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for implementation and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR). Eligibility requirements include, but are not limited to:
Computerized physician order entry for at least 80 percent of all orders Ability to electronically check for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-formulary interactions to make prescribing drugs safer
Maintaining a "problem list of current and active diagnoses" for patients Use of electronic prescriptions at least 75 percent of the time Listing of patient demographic data
Recording of vital signs Electronic verification of insurance eligibility Electronic filing of insurance claims Ability to provide electronic copies of health records to patients Ability to exchange clinical information with other providers in an electronic format Ability to submit immunization data electronically Based in Orlando, Florida, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions provides HIPAA-compliant services and Best-in-Class, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) products for connecting (IT) and healthcare to create One Community United for Healing.
Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Ft. Lauderdale, Naples, Sarasota, Florida Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Albany, Valdosta, Georgia Montgomery, Birmigham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Charleston, Spartensburg, Greenville, Innes, South Carolina Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Richmond, Virginia Beach, Virginia Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Tennessee Frankfort, Louisville, Cinncinati, Kentucky West Virginia New, York, Albany, Rochester, New York Newark, New Jersey Maryland Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New Hampshire Connecticut Vermont Boston, Massachusetts Augusta, Bangor, Portland, Maine Cinncinati, Columbus, Ohio Chicago, Illinois Jackson, Mississippi New Orleans Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Lubbock, Ft. Worth, Waco, Texas Arkansas St. Louis, Missouri Dover, Delaware Rhode Island
Does the HIPAA Security Rule Make Email Obsolete? - November 21, 2010
Orlando Florida -- - That is a pretty startling question. And in that you simply no doubt have checked your email dozens of times today, sent several emails out and gotten that several or more in, to say that like a mode of communication that email is obsolete would be a mistake. Email is no more obsolete than letter writing or talking over a telephone is. But it's safe to say that email need to be secure. Its era being a main tool requires new procedures and tchnology for example encryption.
When email first became a well-known mode of communication, it virtually changed the way communication worked inside a way that will only be compared to the invention of fax. Email combined the quickness of a phone call on the ability to post what was mentioned of the fax. At the time in order to send an email that reached the recipient's email box in moments time even if they had been on an other side in the world is amazing.
The potential for ones Use of e-Mail in medical procedure is tremendous. As electronic medical
records became a real mode of providing healthcare, it was assumed email would turn out to be an important. However there were security difficulties and we probably don't need to tell you what the problems were. It really is summed up in a single term - privacy. Privacy is an difficulty in email communications commonly from transmission outside the mail exchange server.
So from the last decade email as the primary mode of communication with your patients has grown in 2 parallel lines. The legitimate side of email and consumer support has grown and come to be additional sophisticated and useful. Several practices were in a position to build impressive use of supported email and ongoing email communications having a growing patient base. For thousands of medical providers, the idea of conducting medical transactions without the need of email communications with patients looks impossible.
But it was another parallel line that grew as being a cancer towards the point that it snarled email communications and has interfered with email privacy for the several legitimate email users working in cyberspace. The privacy concerns with unsophisticated mailing services and software package have caused concerns for the public to these kinds of an extent that without compliance procedures and software program each at the server level and at the desk top level, it is not possible to use email for routine purposes any more.
Compliance control software package has grown exponentially too and turn out to be powerful and sophisticated. It has also spawned a tech market which has imposed a whole new price of operations on every email user within the world who desires to avoid privacy problems they will face if they go unprotected. This has created resentment and distrust inside email method of communications in general and certainly toward the doctors who desire to use the world wide web for more communications with their patients. To say that several bad apples spoiled it for everybody puts it mildly.
Because of this ongoing mandates and HIPAA rules, email deliverability has grow to be a tedious chore to hold and with no constant oversight, a practice merchant can lose contact with its patients in short order. For the email has turn into obsolete being a valid and simple to use tool for medical communications.
Meanwhile new forms of communications including instant messaging, and PHR (personal wellness records online) interoperability have started the following wave of evolution in net communications. The chances are that we will see physicans move away from email to exploit these additional dynamic methods for patient communications. And while email will in no way die as being a cornerstone of on the net communications, from an security of view, it's significant to use HIPAA-compliant Email Communication Systems.
For more information please call (877) 904-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Connect You to the Health Community"
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT
Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology
resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions
Professional Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with
you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money Âand lead to a truly
customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Looking for the best electronic health record (EHR) software money can buy? Look no further. Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a best-in-class certified reseller for gloStream and Allscripts MyWay.
Allscripts MyWay is the leader in electronic health record/electronic medical record (EMR) software in the market today. Recently merged with Eclipsys, and formerly known as Misys, Allscripts MyWay provides everything your medical practice needs for electronic documentation, practice management (PM), electronic prescribing, drug utilization review and interaction, scheduling, maintaining
patient demographics, insurance verification, physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) tracking, billing and claims management, report and statement generation, and more all designed to meet meaningful use guidelines. Currently, CCHIT-certified, Allscripts MyWay is perfectly poised to
provide everything you need for successfully performing EHR/EMR and electronic prescriptions (eRX).
Benefits of implementing EHR and PM solution are multifaceted. First, incorporating an EHR/PM
solution enables you to provide better, quality of care to your patients. Connecting with other
healthcare providers, pharmacies and laboratories, consulting with best-practice guidelines,
following up on Health Maintenance Alerts, verifying drug utilization and interaction all promote
optimal patient care. Second, successful utilization of an EHR/PM solution promotes operational
efficiency and increases productivity. Third, effective execution of an EHR and PM solution enables your practice to demonstrate meaningful use and capitalize on stimulus monies set forth for electronic prescription and EHR use.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is connecting information technology (IT) and medical practice for
improved patient care, enhanced efficiency and optimal clinical outcomes.
Faced with the challenge of providing higher quality healthcare, meeting meaningful use guidelines and containing rising costs with shrinking reimbursements, today's medical providers have an advantage like never before”the integration of IT and medicine.
Designed for medical practices with 1 to 9 physicians, Allscripts MyWay (recently merged with
Eclipsys, formerly Misys) delivers three critical attributes:
Simple“ intuitive, easy-to-use, and created to work the way you do, Allscripts MyWay software offers unique features like adaptive learning, customization-on-the-fly, and template-free charting
Complete an integrated electronic solution of scheduling, insurance verification, electronic documentation (EHR/EMR), electronic prescriptions (eRX), Health Maintenance Alerts, PQRI/E&M
tracking, claims and practice management (PM) Affordable“ customized to fit your IT needs and
operational budget U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for health care professionals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for implementation and meaningful use of
certified electronic health records (EHR). Eligibility requirements include, but are not limited to:
Computerized physician order entry for at least 80 percent of all orders
Ability to electronically check for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-formulary interactions to make
prescribing drugs safer
Maintaining a "problem list of current and active diagnoses" for patients
Use of electronic prescriptions at least 75 percent of the time
Listing of patient demographic data
Recording of vital signs
Electronic verification of insurance eligibility
Electronic filing of insurance claims
Ability to provide electronic copies of health records to patients
Ability to exchange clinical information with other providers in an electronic format
Ability to submit immunization data electronically
Based in Orlando, Florida, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions provides HIPAA-compliant services and Best-in-Class, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) products for connecting (IT) and healthcare to create One Community United for Healing.
Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Ft. Lauderdale, Naples, Sarasota, Florida Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Albany, Valdosta, Georgia
Montgomery, Birmigham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Charleston,
Spartensburg, Greenville, Innes, South Carolina Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina Richmond, Virginia Beach, Virginia Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Tennessee
Frankfort, Louisville, Cinncinati, Kentucky West Virginia New, York, Albany, Rochester, New York
Newark, New Jersey Maryland Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New Hampshire Connecticut Vermont
Boston, Massachusetts Augusta, Bangor, Portland, Maine Cinncinati, Columbus, Ohio
Chicago, Illinois Jackson, Mississippi New Orleans Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Lubbock, Ft. Worth, Waco, Texas Arkansas St. Louis, Missouri Dover, Delaware Rhode Island
GloStream EHR Systems will Balance Efficiency, Patient Privacy - November 14, 2010
Orlando, Florida -- A few weeks ago, just prior to an appointment with a new doctor, I received a packet of paperwork to fill out before coming in. An hour and 10 pages later, I had written down every current prescription, medication allergy, prior surgery and existing condition, as well as answered an exhaustive family medical history questionnaire. When I got there, the intake nurses asked an abbreviated version of the same list of questions, and then I got them a third time when the doctor came in.
But when I had to answer the same questions a fourth time in the same day before a series of X-rays could be taken, I was annoyed. It's not like I went to a different network of providers for the X-rays. I walked down the hall in the same building, for crying out loud. And I watched as the intake nurses at the doctor's office typed in the pertinent information regarding my address, insurance, drug allergies and such. Why does the office down the hall not have access to the information I gave intake nurses hours before?
I would guess it's because the software used in the doctor's office doesn't play nicely with the software used in the X-ray department. And that's exactly the challenge those leading the Obama Administration's push toward electronic health records face as they determine what the framework for a nationwide system should look like.
What's more, the framework they build must enable the free flow of information between those providers to whom the patient allows access, but prevent access by those the patient wants to keep out of his information. Patient privacy is still important. Records should only be exposed to the extent necessary to improve quality of care and efficiency in the processes, software like gloStream does exactly that!
For more information please call (877) 904-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Connect You to the Community"
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money Âand lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Looking for the best electronic health record (EHR) software money can buy? Look no further. Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a best-in-class certified reseller for Allscripts MyWay. Allscripts MyWay is the leader in electronic health record/electronic medical record (EMR) software in the market today. Recently merged with Eclipsys, and formerly known as Misys, Allscripts MyWay provides everything your medical practice needs for electronic documentation, practice management (PM), electronic prescribing, drug utilization review and interaction, scheduling, maintaining patient demographics, insurance verification, physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) tracking, billing and claims management, report and statement generation, and more all designed to meet meaningful use guidelines. Currently, CCHIT-certified, Allscripts MyWay is perfectly poised to provide everything you need for successfully performing EHR/EMR and electronic prescriptions (eRX).
Benefits of implementing EHR and PM solution are multifaceted. First, incorporating an EHR/PM solution enables you to provide better, quality of care to your patients. Connecting with other healthcare providers, pharmacies and laboratories, consulting with best-practice guidelines, following up on Health Maintenance Alerts, verifying drug utilization and interaction all promote optimal patient care. Second, successful utilization of an EHR/PM solution promotes operational efficiency and increases productivity. Third, effective execution of an EHR and PM solution enables your practice to demonstrate meaningful use and capitalize on stimulus monies set forth for electronic prescription and EHR use.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is connecting information technology (IT) and medical practice for improved patient care, enhanced efficiency and optimal clinical outcomes.
Faced with the challenge of providing higher quality healthcare, meeting meaningful use guidelines and containing rising costs with shrinking reimbursements, todays medical providers have an advantage like never before”the integration of IT and medicine.
Designed for medical practices with 1 to 25 physicians, glostream Allscripts MyWay (recently merged with Eclipsys, formerly Misys) delivers three critical attributes:
Simple“ intuitive, easy-to-use, and created to work the way you do, Allscripts MyWay software offers unique features like adaptive learning, customization-on-the-fly, and template-free charting
• Complete“ an integrated electronic solution of scheduling, insurance verification, electronic documentation (EHR/EMR), electronic prescriptions (eRX), Health Maintenance Alerts, PQRI/E&M tracking, claims and practice management (PM) Affordable“ customized to fit your IT needs and operational budget
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for health care professionals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for implementation and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR). Eligibility requirements include, but are not limited to:
Computerized physician order entry for at least 80 percent of all orders
Ability to electronically check for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-formulary interactions to make prescribing drugs safer
Maintaining a "problem list of current and active diagnoses" for patients
Use of electronic prescriptions at least 75 percent of the time
Listing of patient demographic data
Recording of vital signs
Electronic verification of insurance eligibility
Electronic filing of insurance claims
Ability to provide electronic copies of health records to patients
Ability to exchange clinical information with other providers in an electronic format
Ability to submit immunization data electronically
Based in Orlando, Florida, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions provides HIPAA-compliant services and Best-in-Class, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) products for connecting (IT) and healthcare to create One Community United for Healing.
Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Pensacola, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Ft. Lauderdale, Naples, Sarasota, Florida
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Albany, Valdosta, Georgia
Montgomery, Birmigham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Charleston, Spartensburg, Greenville, Innes, South Carolina
Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Richmond, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Tennessee
Frankfort, Louisville, Cinncinati, Kentucky
West Virginia
New, York, Albany, Rochester, New York
Newark, New Jersey
Maryland
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Vermont
Boston, Massachusetts
Augusta, Bangor, Portland, Maine
Cinncinati, Columbus, Ohio
Chicago, Illinois
Jackson, Mississippi
New Orleans
Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Lubbock, Ft. Worth, Waco, Texas
Arkansas
St. Louis, Missouri
Dover, Delaware
Rhode Island
CMS Answers Meaningful Use Questions - November 14, 2010
Orlando Florida -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' EHR Incentive Program Web site contains a variety of information for providers seeking incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records. Among the features is a Frequently Asked Questions page that as of mid-November had answers to 106 questions. Here's a sample:
Question: How will eligible professionals (EPs) and eligible hospitals apply for incentives under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program?
Answer: Information on registration for EHR incentive programs will be available toward the end of 2010 on our website at http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentiveProgram. Registration for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program will begin in January 2011 and will be available online. Registration for the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program may also begin in January 2011, but the timing will vary by State.
Question: A number of measures for Meaningful Use objectives for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) include patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED). Which ED patients should be included in the denominators of these measures for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs?
Answer: Our intent is to include in the denominator visits to emergency departments (EDs) of sufficient duration and complexity that all of the Meaningful Use objectives for which the ED is included would be relevant. We also want to encourage integration of the inpatient and emergency departments by including inpatient admissions that occur through the ED. Therefore, we are clarifying the following specifications for including ED services in the denominator for measures associated with Stage 1 of Meaningful Use objectives for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs):
* The patient is admitted to the inpatient setting through the ED. In this situation, the orders entered in the ED using certified EHR technology would count for purposes of determining the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) Meaningful Use measure. Similarly, other actions taken within the ED would count for purposes of determining Meaningful Use
* The patient initially presented to the ED and is treated in the ED's observation unit or otherwise receives observation services. Details on observation services can be found in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 6, Section 20.6.
Question: Who can enter medication orders in order to meet the measure for the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) meaningful use objective under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs? When must these medication orders be entered?
Answer: Any licensed healthcare professional can enter orders into the medical record for purposes of including the order in the numerator for the measure of the CPOE objective if they can enter the order per state, local, and professional guidelines. The order must be entered by someone who could exercise clinical judgment in the case that the entry generates any alerts about possible interactions or other clinical decision support aides. This necessitates that CPOE occurs when the order first becomes part of the patient's medical record and before any action can be taken on the order. Each provider will have to evaluate on a case-by-case basis whether a given situation is entered according to state, local, and professional guidelines, allows for clinical judgment before the medication is given, and is the first time the order becomes part of the patient's medical record.
Question: In a group practice, will each provider need to demonstrate meaningful use in order to get Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments or can meaningful use be calculated or averaged at the group level?
Answer: Yes. Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments are made on a per EP basis, not by practice. Each EP will need to demonstrate the full requirements of meaningful use in order to qualify for the EHR incentive payments. We made this clear in the preamble to the final rule when we declined to adopt alternative means for demonstrating meaningful use on a group-practice level (75 FR 44437).
The FAQs and additional information are available at https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/.
For more information please call (877) 904-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Connect You to the Community"
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money Âand lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Looking for the best electronic health record (EHR) software money can buy? Look no further. Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a best-in-class certified reseller for Allscripts MyWay. Allscripts MyWay is the leader in electronic health record/electronic medical record (EMR) software in the market today. Recently merged with Eclipsys, and formerly known as Misys, Allscripts MyWay provides everything your medical practice needs for electronic documentation, practice management (PM), electronic prescribing, drug utilization review and interaction, scheduling, maintaining patient demographics, insurance verification, physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) tracking, billing and claims management, report and statement generation, and more all designed to meet meaningful use guidelines. Currently, CCHIT-certified, Allscripts MyWay is perfectly poised to provide everything you need for successfully performing EHR/EMR and electronic prescriptions (eRX).
Benefits of implementing EHR and PM solution are multifaceted. First, incorporating an EHR/PM solution enables you to provide better, quality of care to your patients. Connecting with other healthcare providers, pharmacies and laboratories, consulting with best-practice guidelines, following up on Health Maintenance Alerts, verifying drug utilization and interaction all promote optimal patient care. Second, successful utilization of an EHR/PM solution promotes operational efficiency and increases productivity. Third, effective execution of an EHR and PM solution enables your practice to demonstrate meaningful use and capitalize on stimulus monies set forth for electronic prescription and EHR use.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is connecting information technology (IT) and medical practice for improved patient care, enhanced efficiency and optimal clinical outcomes.
Faced with the challenge of providing higher quality healthcare, meeting meaningful use guidelines and containing rising costs with shrinking reimbursements, todays medical providers have an advantage like never before”the integration of IT and medicine.
Designed for medical practices with 1 to 25 physicians, glostream Allscripts MyWay (recently merged with Eclipsys, formerly Misys) delivers three critical attributes:
Simple“ intuitive, easy-to-use, and created to work the way you do, Allscripts MyWay software offers unique features like adaptive learning, customization-on-the-fly, and template-free charting
• Complete“ an integrated electronic solution of scheduling, insurance verification, electronic documentation (EHR/EMR), electronic prescriptions (eRX), Health Maintenance Alerts, PQRI/E&M tracking, claims and practice management (PM) Affordable“ customized to fit your IT needs and operational budget
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for health care professionals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for implementation and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR). Eligibility requirements include, but are not limited to:
Computerized physician order entry for at least 80 percent of all orders
Ability to electronically check for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-formulary interactions to make prescribing drugs safer
Maintaining a "problem list of current and active diagnoses" for patients
Use of electronic prescriptions at least 75 percent of the time
Listing of patient demographic data
Recording of vital signs
Electronic verification of insurance eligibility
Electronic filing of insurance claims
Ability to provide electronic copies of health records to patients
Ability to exchange clinical information with other providers in an electronic format
Ability to submit immunization data electronically
Based in Orlando, Florida, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions provides HIPAA-compliant services and Best-in-Class, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) products for connecting (IT) and healthcare to create One Community United for Healing.
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CMS Payments starting in May 2011, Will you be Ready? - November 2, 2010
A recent comment from Jim Cook from Meta Group had a nice checklist of items that doctors and practice managers could start doing to make sure that their EMR implementation is ready to meet the meaningful use standards. This is not an exhaustive list, but I thought was a good list for those providers wanting to being their preparation for showing meaningful use and obtaining the EMR stimulus money.
Everyone should keep in mind that there are few systems Certified at this point, one example would be gloStream (see www.glostream.com)
Here are some things to check as you get ready to claim your incentives for EHR Meaningful Use under the HITECH Act. This information is based on (EPs) qualifying for the Medicare incentives.
1) Start talking to your vendor about their plans to submit their EHR software for certification as Certified EHR Technology. The system does have to be certified as of January 1, but it does need to be certified by the end of the 90 day period you are using to attest to your EHR Meaningful Use.
2) Keep in mind that if you are using a stand alone EMR product with an existing legacy practice management (PM) system, the system needs to be Certified EHR Technology also. This is because some of the functions of a certified system, such as recording patient demographics electronically, are most likely functions of your PM system, not the EMR product. So talk to that vendor, too.
3) Verify that any eligible provider attesting to meeting EHR Meaningful Use objectives provides 10% or more of his/her Medicare services in an outpatient setting (not inpatient or in a hospital ED). CMS will look at the percent of services rendered in an outpatient setting for the fiscal year ending 09/30/2010 to determine the IP/OP percentages. Your EHR healthcare consultant must be qualified to do the analytical and reporting work in preparing the self-attestation report, based on the current fiscal year and the individual EHR Meaningful Use objectives in place, starting January 2011.
4) Make sure all eligible providers you are planning to certify for EHR Meaningful Use have an NPI number and are enrolled in PECOS.
5) For EPs in group practices, confirm the tax Id number group or personal of each provider for payment of the incentive amount. Payments can be made to either number.
6) CMS will be establishing an Internet-based enrollment process for EPs planning to apply for incentive payments. Keep checking this site for the Registration process, and enroll when it is available.
7) As soon as you start the clock on your 90 day period, make sure you are meeting all the EHR Meaningful Use objectives applicable to your practice, and, for objectives with numerical thresholds, that you are attaining the levels specified. If your EHR system is Certified EHR Technology, it should be capable of supporting all Stage 1 Meaningful Use objectives.
8) Monitor the CMS website on EHR Incentive Programs to determine the format of the attestation for 2011. And keep in mind that accuracy is paramount; attesting to EHR Meaningful Use is making a claim to a Federal program. And the penalties for false claims are significant!
Attestations can be completed as early as April, 2011, and CMS has stated payments will be made in May. For EPs seeking incentive payments under the Medicaid / Medical program, visit the CMS website for further information. First payment are May 2011, will you be ready?
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Key Features in Future EHRs - November 2, 2010
As electronic health records become more prevalent, it becomes more difficult to choose an EHR that will remain relevant and usable well into the future. Brian McCarthy of Sencilo HealthIT, an IT consulting firm, shares the following five key components of the EHR of tomorrow.
1. "Liquidity of data is an absolute necessity," said McCarthy, who cited interoperability and integration as important elements. The ability to share data amongst many different platforms will be a crucial component of tomorrow's EHR.
2. Assuming those providers who want to adopt EHRs have already begun to do so, scalability is essential. A scalable, web-delivered solution with a low financial barrier will ensure further market penetration, said McCarthy.
3. Tomorrow's EHR should be easily maintainable. Hospitals require a massive amount of maintenance for their varied IT systems. An overly complex EHR will not survive.
4. Mobile computing is a big trend in healthcare IT. EHRs that utilize mobility will hold greater appeal for physicians who want the convenience and efficiency of mobile technology.
5. User-friendly design and interface are critical to tomorrow's EHR. "Today's users demand context-sensitive applications capable of predicting their next move and streamlining workflow," McCarthy
said.
6. The ability to scan directly into the EHR, like the gloStream product does
7. Built-in Voice to text, like Dragon Medical.
McCarthy noted that EHRs demonstrating interoperability, scalability, and maintainability used to have a strong advantage in the market. Today, however, those factors have become all but required for EHRs. Mobility and usability are emerging as aspects that will distinguish tomorrow's EHR from the rest.
Florida Healthcare IT Solutions Provider, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Becomes gloStream Platium Certified Partner - November 2, 2010
Sencilo is now qualified to sell and support gloStream electronic medical record (EMR), electronic prescribing and practice management software solutions.
Orlando Florida Sencilo HealthIT Solutions a leading provider of Healthcare IT products and services serving with offices throughout the Southeast announced today that it has become a gloStream Platium Certified Partner. Sencilo has been awarded this certification because they have demonstrated the IT proficiency and capability to sell and support gloStreams voice-enabled, Microsoft Office embedded electronic medical record (EMR) software and practice management solutions to physician practices.
Use of electronic medical records is fast becoming the expected manner in which to operate a medical practice said Brian McCarthy, Sencilo President and CEO. The opportunity for physicians to offer improved patient care while simultaneously improving productivity for their staff is tremendous. Our current EMR is not expected to qualify for CCHIT until 2011 so we reviewed the key players in the marketplace, gloStream won out due to their strategic development relationship with Microsoft, says McCarthy.
Additionally, the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) includes more than $19 billion to aid the development of technology infrastructure for healthcare. This will assist providers in adopting and using healthcare technology. The ARRA also makes available up to $44,000 to $64,000 for individual physicians.
We are thrilled to have Sencilo HealthIT on board as a gloStream partner, said Michael Quinn, gloStreams Regional Manager. Their understanding of technology and advanced networking will help medical professionals within the Southeast realize the tremendous benefits of electronic medical record technology.
Brian McCarthy continued we have been providing IT support services for physicians in Southeast for over 7 years. With the recent stimulus legislation providing substantial incentives for physicians to adopt electronic medical records software, it made perfect sense for us to partner up with a solid EMR software vendor. We chose gloStream due to their partner centric delivery model. With gloStream, sales and support are delivered by a local, trusted vendor like Sencilo.
About Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, LLC:
Sencilo is a full-service Healthcare information technology solutions provider that implements and maintains high-performance HIPAA based IT systems for small and medium-sized medical organizations. Established in 2003, Sencilo brings proven experience and expertise to every engagement. They differentiate themselves through a consistent emphasis on user training, integrity, responsiveness and value-added service. For more information visit www.sencilo.com
About gloStream:
gloStream provides physicians and healthcare facilities with certified electronic medical record software and practice management solutions delivered and supported through a nationwide network of local technology partners. gloStream solutions are secure, easy-to-use applications and the only ones on the market embedded with Microsoft Office. Using familiar tools, a simple user interface, robust voice recognition technology, and single-click access to all patient data, gloStream products help doctors improve patient care by streamlining workflow and creating efficiencies in office administration.
Surgeon General Weighs in on EHR - October 13, 2010
Orlando Florida -- If ever there was a compelling story in favor of EHR adoption, Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin told it at the 82nd annual AHIMA convention and exhibition.
It took two hurricanes and a fire to drive home the importance of EHRs. Not surprisingly, Gulf Coast states such as Alabama and Louisiana understand that lesson. In truth, we as an industry and a country should not have to experience this kind of devastation and its long-lasting impact to healthcare access and patient safety to embrace the benefits of EHRs.
Clearly, there are privacy and security issues that need to be adequately addressed to ensure the public, patient privacy advocates and all healthcare providers that everyone's information will be handled in a safe manner.
We have all read about privacy breaches and thefts of electronic health data. People forget that paper documents are not more secure. The story Benjamin told of having to dry row after row of paper patient medical records out in the sun should make patients and privacy advocates shudder.
Beyond the officials overseeing HIPAA compliance, was there any outcry about privacy violations at the time? I'm sure there were records so wet they tore and were rendered useless. Paper records reduced to ashes are equally useless. Maybe you or I can recal our procedures and medication list, but the elderly likely cannot.
The question everyone needs to ask themselves is this: If your paper health records are destroyed, will the care a provider renders to you, whether he or she is your primary care physician, OBGYN or someone who you are seeing for the first time, be compromised in any way?
For more information please call (877) 904-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Connect You to the Community"
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money Âand lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Looking for the best electronic health record (EHR) software money can buy? Look no further. Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a best-in-class certified reseller for Allscripts MyWay. Allscripts MyWay is the leader in electronic health record/electronic medical record (EMR) software in the market today. Recently merged with Eclipsys, and formerly known as Misys, Allscripts MyWay provides everything your medical practice needs for electronic documentation, practice management (PM), electronic prescribing, drug utilization review and interaction, scheduling, maintaining patient demographics, insurance verification, physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) tracking, billing and claims management, report and statement generation, and more all designed to meet meaningful use guidelines. Currently, CCHIT-certified, Allscripts MyWay is perfectly poised to provide everything you need for successfully performing EHR/EMR and electronic prescriptions (eRX).
Benefits of implementing EHR and PM solution are multifaceted. First, incorporating an EHR/PM solution enables you to provide better, quality of care to your patients. Connecting with other healthcare providers, pharmacies and laboratories, consulting with best-practice guidelines, following up on Health Maintenance Alerts, verifying drug utilization and interaction all promote optimal patient care. Second, successful utilization of an EHR/PM solution promotes operational efficiency and increases productivity. Third, effective execution of an EHR and PM solution enables your practice to demonstrate meaningful use and capitalize on stimulus monies set forth for electronic prescription and EHR use.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is connecting information technology (IT) and medical practice for improved patient care, enhanced efficiency and optimal clinical outcomes.
Faced with the challenge of providing higher quality healthcare, meeting meaningful use guidelines and containing rising costs with shrinking reimbursements, today’s medical providers have an advantage like never before”the integration of IT and medicine.
Designed for medical practices with 1 to 9 physicians, Allscripts MyWay (recently merged with Eclipsys, formerly Misys) delivers three critical attributes:
Simple“ intuitive, easy-to-use, and created to work the way you do, Allscripts MyWay software offers unique features like adaptive learning, customization-on-the-fly, and template-free charting
• Complete – an integrated electronic solution of scheduling, insurance verification, electronic documentation (EHR/EMR), electronic prescriptions (eRX), Health Maintenance Alerts, PQRI/E&M tracking, claims and practice management (PM) Affordable“ customized to fit your IT needs and operational budget
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for health care professionals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for implementation and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR). Eligibility requirements include, but are not limited to:
Computerized physician order entry for at least 80 percent of all orders
Ability to electronically check for drug-drug, drug-allergy and drug-formulary interactions to make prescribing drugs safer
Maintaining a "problem list of current and active diagnoses" for patients
Use of electronic prescriptions at least 75 percent of the time
Listing of patient demographic data
Recording of vital signs
Electronic verification of insurance eligibility
Electronic filing of insurance claims
Ability to provide electronic copies of health records to patients
Ability to exchange clinical information with other providers in an electronic format
Ability to submit immunization data electronically
Based in Orlando, Florida, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions provides HIPAA-compliant services and Best-in-Class, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) products for connecting (IT) and healthcare to create One Community United for Healing. glostream
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Best Practices for Family Physicians to adopt EHRs - October 13, 2010
Steven Waldren, MD, director of the Center for Health Information Technology for the American Academy of Family Physicians, has helped many small physician practices implement and adopt EHRs.
At yesterday’s National Regional Extension Center & Health Information Exchange Summit West in San Francisco, Waldren shared best practices and lessons learned.
Before your office makes any changes, you need to have a financially stable practice, he said. Implementing an EHR is a major disruptive process and one that can shut a small practice down if it isn’t stable enough to endure a steep learning curve.
Next, you need to ensure that you have leadership, management and teamwork in place to guide the office through this transformative time.
Finally, small practices need to understand that implementing technology requires dedicating time for change management and process design, so find a partner that has done this before, a partner that has certiifed trainers and local support, like Sencilo HealthIT Solutions.
Waldren outlined four steps to health IT adoption, and those steps must all be taken and in this order: preparation, selection, implementation and maintenance. Do not go directly to select. A lot of preparation must be done in order to determine how your office goes about selecting a vendor.
Waldren talked about driving quality with health IT. Meaningful use means being able to track and measure quality metrics for improved patient care. But you can’t measure if you can’t capture discrete data in a standardized form. That’s the value of health IT.
Small physician practices often ask how to embed knowledge into their system. Waldren recommends developing evidence-based documentation templates for your EHR.
The physician office needs to ensure that the system that is implemented needs to be reliable in order to track tasks and results.
Implementing a system will result in a shift of work among office staff. Take advantage of the technology to allow team members to do high-level task. In the meantime, remember to remove repetitive tasks and increase communication within the care team especially during the learning curve.
Finally, stop the paper chase; in other words, once you adopt health IT, don’t cling to the old processes.
Many physician practices won’t be able to go through this major transformation alone. They will need outside assistance to help them in many areas, including, aggregating and filtering the health IT chaos and noise. RECs can help with vendor contracting, provide basic IT assistance, help practices establish professional business practices, assist with project and change management, as well as process redesign. They can also be an advocate during implementation. glostream
At a certain point, physicians need an assessment to determine technology requirements and build buy-in. They will also need to establish a long-term plan that takes into account the timeline for stages one through four and beyond.
For more infomation please call (877) 904-4EHR or click: www.sencilo.com
