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Meaningful Use - July 19, 2010
The nation's healthcare system is undergoing a transformation in an effort to improve quality, safety and efficiency of care from the upgrade to ICD-10 to information exchanges of EHR technology. The Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs are designed to support providers in this period of transition, but the impact of this historic change on both providers and patients will stretch far beyond the duration of these programs.
The Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs provide a financial reward for the meaningful use of qualified, certified EHRs to achieve health and efficiency goals. By implementing and meaningfully using an EHR system, providers will reap benefits beyond financial incentives - like reduction in errors, availability of records and data, reminders and alerts, clinical decision support and e-Prescribing/refill automation.
To qualify for incentive payments, meaningful use requirements must be met in the following ways:
•Medicare EHR incentive program - Eligible professionals and hospitals must successfully demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology every year they participate in the program.
•Medicaid EHR incentive program - Eligible professionals and hospitals may qualify for incentive payments for the adoption, implementation, upgrade or the demonstration of meaningful use in their first year of participation. They must successfully demonstrate meaningful use for the remaining years they participate in the program.
The Definition of Meaningful Use Requirements
The requirements of meaningful use to qualify for incentive payments was released on July 13, 2010. The final rule definitively outlines all the specifics of Stage 1 meaningful use and clinical quality measure reporting to receive the incentive payments in 2011 and 2012.
The Recovery Act specifies three main components of Meaningful Use:
•The use of a certified EHR in a meaningful manner (e.g.: e-Prescribing);
•The use of certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care; and
•The use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other measures.
The definition of meaningful use harmonizes criteria across CMS programs as much as possible and coordinate with existing CMS quality initiatives. It also closely links to the certification standards criteria in development by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and provides a platform for a staged implementation over time.
Specifics of Stage 1 Meaningful Use (2011 and 2012)
Meaningful use includes both a core set and a menu set of objectives that are specific for eligible professionals and hospitals. For Eligible Professionals, there are a total of 25 meaningful use objectives. 20 of the objectives must be completed to qualify for an incentive payment. 15 are core objectives that are required, and the remaining 5 objectives may be chosen from the list of 10 menu set objectives. For Hospitals, there are a total of 24 meaningful use objectives. 14 are core objectives that are required, and the remaining 5 objectives may be chosen from the list of 10 menu set objectives.
The definition of meaningful use includes submission of quality measures. See the link titled "Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures" in the Links Inside CMS section below to learn more about these specifications for eligible professionals and hospitals. More information on the final rule and fact sheets regarding meaningful use are available below.
To realize improved health care quality, efficiency and patient safety, the criteria for meaningful use will be staged in three steps over the course of the next five years. Stage 1 sets the baseline for electronic data capture and information sharing. Stage 2 (est. 2013) and State 3 (est. 2015) will continue to expand on this baseline and be developed through future rule making.
San Diego health system connects with Allscripts - July 19, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Sharp HealthCare has selected the Allscripts Community Record, provided in partnership with health IT company dbMotion, to deliver connectivity across its San Diego-based health system.
Using Allscripts’ technology, Sharp's caregivers and those in affiliated physician practices will share access to one unified patient record, according to Chicago-based Allscripts.
Sharp has deployed the Allscripts EHR for all of its employed physicians. The EHR, automating clinical processes and connecting providers to each other, forms the basis of the Allscripts Community Record, the company stated. Sharp also utilizes the Allscripts Care Management tool in all of its hospitals, and the provider's five post-acute facilities use the Allscripts Referral Management program to capture electronic patient referrals from Care Management, Allscripts added.
Last updated on July 16, 2010 at 11:40 am EST
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How a Paper Shredder Can Help You Comply With HIPAA and FACTA Rules - July 19, 2010
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CMS will announce meaningful use final rule tomorrow - July 13, 2010
Orlando Florida --
By Mary Mosquera
Monday, July 12, 2010
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to announce on July 13 its final rule on the definition and requirements for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), giving providers certainty about what they have to do to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentives under the HITECH Act.
The announcement follows a period of public comment after the proposed rule was published in January.
At the same time, the Office of the National Health IT Coordinator will issue its final rule for standards and certification of EHRs, according to the Health and Human Services Department. ONC also published its interim final rule on standards and certification in January.
With the standards and certification requirements finalized, vendors can be sure that they equip their EHR products with the features necessary for providers to be capable of meeting meaningful use.
In its proposed meaningful use rule, CMS required 25 measures for providers and 23 for hospitals to show they were using EHRs to improve healthcare outcomes in order to qualify for payments. CMS has grouped measure by healthcare priorities, including quality and safety, patient engagement, care coordination, public health, and privacy and security.
CMS will set meaningful use criteria over three stages between now and 2013, setting the bar progressively higher for providers to improve patient outcomes. This first stage of criteria described in the final rule focuses on collecting data electronically, sharing information with other providers and patients, and reporting quality measures to CMS, according to agency officials.
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HIPAA Compliant Physician Billing Services - July 13, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Posted by valeri on July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
HIPAA compliant physician billing services ensure proper and timely reimbursement of claims. The customized billing services that established medical billing companies offer include insurance verification and authorization, charge entry, insurance collection, collection agency reporting, patient collection, cash posting and reconciliation.
Medical billing companies have a team of expert staff that works to maximize their claim reimbursements, minimize administrative expenses and meet HIPAA regulations. The procedure involves enrollment into the billing system, verification of insurance and authorizations, coding, billing and reconciling of accounts, and Accounts Receivable collections.
HIPAA Compliance for Document Security
Physician practices that outsource their billing tasks risk the loss of information privacy. With HIPAA compliant physician billing services, physicians can make sure that the privacy rights of their patients are protected. The medical outsourcing companies take extra security measures to provide complete security, privacy and confidentiality for the services they provide. For this, they streamline their structure, technical equipment and capabilities, and administration procedures according to HIPAA security norms. Some of the added benefits of HIPAA compliant physician billing services are:
• Periodic backup of data and critical facilities accessibility
• Technical evaluations are performed on a routine basis
• Secure workstations, storage facility and authorized access
• Firewalls and antivirus software on all systems are updated frequently.
Physician Billing Services – Save Time and Expenses
Medical professionals can reduce administrative expenses and maximize their claim reimbursements with physician billing services. Medical billing experts will effectively manage all their billing tasks, so that they can concentrate on their core business. Outsourcing is also a cost-effective way of managing their administrative tasks as physicians can save the expenses that would be needed for employing personnel for managing their medical billing procedures. Since every aspect of the billing procedure is effectively handled by the billing companies, physicians can be sure of getting their claims processed in a timely manner.
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
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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 and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Top 3 understated aspects of ICD-10 - July 13, 2010
Orlando Florida --
July 13, 2010 | Tom Sullivan, Contributing Writer
To many healthcare IT professionals the phrase ICD-10 is downright frightening. Mammoth in expanse and expense, the conversion, along with the requisite HIPAA 5010, is the stuff of Jungian nightmares, early retirement, or profound career changes.
The closer that the corresponding HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 compliance dates get – January 1, 2012 and October 1, 2013 respectively – the clearer the picture will become as well. But with 18 months left for HIPAA 5010 and about two-and-a-half years for ICD-10, many healthcare organizations are hazy about the mandates.
Given the complexity of both, and the fact that they are essentially best taken together, that's not at all surprising. Neither is the fact that with the deadlines ostensibly distant, there are many pieces of HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 that, as of today, have been rather understated.
Bearing that in mind, ICD10Watch compiled such a list.
1 Better patient care
The overarching and ultimate promise of ICD-10, yet one aspect that even this ICD-10-obsessed writer hears little about, is how it will improve patient care on scales both individual and international.
“If ICD-10 is utilized appropriately as it is in the rest of the world, the output is much more reliable information on outcomes,” says Jim Dugan, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Everyone would agree that having more detailed information could only help the research population in regards to looking at clinical trials. Certainly, looking at overall utilization of services that come out through the system is another added benefit of ICD-10.”
More granular codes, it follows, can be better analyzed to study health trends and yield more positive outcomes.
“The new code set will link the U.S. to all other industrialized countries identifying and managing health threats and outbreaks,” explains Tori Sullivan, a manager in Capgemini's healthcare division who also chairs HIMSS ICD-10 Task Force. “Most importantly, ICD-10 enables us to more quickly identify and resolve coding errors, thus improving the submitted data. The quality of our healthcare has the opportunity to improve as a result of ICD-10 data, improving both individual and national healthcare quality.”
2 The benefits of HIPAA 5010
Commonly viewed as a pesky EDI pre-cursor to ICD-10, the forthcoming HIPAA 5010 actually brings some 500 enhancements over 4010 and an overflowing handful of benefits, though these are currently poorly understood.
Even the folks at CMS (The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) basically buried its list of HIPAA 5010's advantages during the last National Provider Conference Call on the subject. Highlighting 7 benefits of HIPAA 5010 required CMS to be broad, as in “supports e-health initiatives now and in the future” and to be very specific, “provides infrastructure on ICD-10 and Present on Admission Indicator.” Others include: less ambiguity in the implementation guides, improved utility of the NCPDP standards, compliance with Part D requirements, and supports standardization of companion guides across the industry.
HIPAA 5010 will “offer consistency of processing for payers and clearinghouses,” that 4010 does not, Christine Stahlecker, CMS director of medical billing procedures, said during the provider conference call.
3 The possibility of “Minimum Compliance”
PricewaterhouseCoopers' Dugan says “the thing that I’ve not heard too many people talk about is the various ways of looking at ICD-10 from a minimum compliance perspective.”
Think of this as an approach in which healthcare organizations meet the mandate first, as required by law, then reap rewards later as doing so becomes strategic to heir business. How much later? That all depends. As does the nationwide effectiveness of ICD-10. “The question is: Will the provider community embrace that day one, or is that something that’s really not October 2013 but could be October 2016? And there’s a further migration strategy there,” Dugan adds.
Any possibility of minimum compliance is fast becoming a probability. Indeed, Deloitte in May said that, among its clients, the payers who were amid a move from ICD-10 assessment and into remediation found the task so much more challenging and expensive that they are adjusting their expectation from innovative to merely pragmatic, meaning they plan to adhere to minimum compliance, at least initially.
The downside to the legal bare minimum? “The longer it persists where we are taking a minimal approach, then you’re limiting the information you have available to you and it’s going to take that much longer to get some of the benefits where you can set best practices or compare doctors more easily,” says Cathy Veum, senior manager with Noblis health innovation unit. “Those things will come down the pike, but the more quickly you have the robust data the sooner that’s going to happen. If we drag this on and take the minimal approach it’s going to be many more years.”
Those are just three of the understated aspects of ICD-10. What others have you found?
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
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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 and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
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7/9/10 - CPMG selects Allscripts's electronic health record solution - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Jul 09, 2010 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) Central Penn Management Group, or CPMG, a physician management services organization, has selected the Allscripts's electronic health record for Physicians Alliance, or PAL, an independent multi-specialty group managed by CPMG.
CPMG will utilize the Allscripts READY package to accelerate implementation of the electronic health record (EHR) and integration with its existing Allscripts Vision practice management system.
The group also will implement Allscripts analytics to generate quality reports needed to help the physician group earn pay-for-performance rewards from insurers and to demonstrate meaningful use of the EHR, a requirement for physicians to qualify for EHR incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Utilizing READY, CPMG expects to deploy the Allscripts EHR to all of the PAL providers within 12 months.
CPMG is in discussions with non-PAL practices about the possibility of providing access to the Allscripts EHR. CPMG will host the Allscripts EHR on its own servers to add more practices, in addition to supporting the practices on an on-going basis.
Lee Meyers, president and CEO of CPMG, said: "We selected Allscripts because the PAL physicians were very impressed with its usability and functionality. In addition, our central billing office is already using the Allscripts practice management system, which connects directly to the Allscripts EHR, so we won't have to buy a new billing system."
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About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Mental Health Data Breached in Maine - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
HDM Breaking News, July 6, 2010
The University of Maine is notifying 4,585 current and former students after two servers holding information from the school's mental health and support counseling center were breached.
Data on the servers, covering students who sought counseling services between Aug. 8, 2002, and June 21, 2010, includes names, Social Security numbers and clinical information. "Any student or former student who visited the counseling center as a UMaine student since Aug. 8, 2002, should assume that he or she is in the affected database," according to a statement the university has issued.
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The university began an investigation on June 16 after staff members reported difficulty accessing server files. An archive server holding data from 2002 to 2005 was found to have been hacked as early as March 4. The hacker then used that server to access an active server holding all data from the past eight years.
Investigators have found no evidence that data was viewed or downloaded, according to the university. The school is offering those effected at least one year of free credit and identity theft prevention services. The university also will conduct a review to determine necessary security improvements.
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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 and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
ONC Now Accepting EHR Certification Applications - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has begun accepting applications from organizations that wish to be temporarily certified for using electronic health record systems.
The certification deems the health care providers eligible for federal funding as long as their EHR use falls under the ‘meaningful use‘ requirements, a set regulatory metrics established under the The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act that was passed in 2009.
While the rules have not yet been finalized, the guidelines for providers to fall under certification were proposed in March.
Carol Bean, a standards harmonization analyst for ONC, said that HHS has already received about 40 application inquiries and 14 requests for applications.
The organizations that fall under the requirements will be eligible to receive a portion of the $36 billion available under the legislation’s incentive funds.
With EHR technology certification, healthcare providers can be assured the adopted EHR technology has been tested and includes the required capabilities they need to use the technology in a meaningful way. The certification applications will potentially improve quality and efficiency in the healthcare system by establishing a level of continuity among EHR users.
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For more information please call (407) 494-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Uncomplexify your Information
Technology"
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 and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, eprescribe, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
How to choose an EHR after a demo - July 9, 2010
by Rosemarie Nelson, MS
Selecting an EHR is not just about the demo. But those EHR vendors sure do put a lot of focus on that demo! You need to get beyond the smoke and mirrors and consider how to use that focus to evaluate the solution as it meets your needs and requirements.
Before you even schedule any vendor demonstrations, write down your “must haves.” Can you identify your top 10 requirements?
For example, in one practice I work with, the system must track all pap smears for outstanding results and also automate notification to the patients of their result. In another, the EHR must incorporate a point-of-sale purchase of retail items. A 10-physician internal medicine practice required that their EHR solution incorporate voice recognition software to ease the transition for keyboard-phobic physicians.
Different specialties have different needs, and you should think of as many specialty-specific requirements as possible. Having an interface to the lab results for the bulk of your patients (75% to 80%) is an absolute requirement in primary care, for instance. Try asking yourself: What do I do that doctors in other specialties don’t? Figure out how those differences would translate to functions in the EHR.
You can also incorporate the criteria that CMS will use to define Meaningful Use of an EHR for its incentive program to determine how your use of the EHR system will address specific objectives. (Even though the criteria are only in the interim final rule stage, wholesale changes don’t usually happen past that point.)
For example, it is likely that collecting the smoking status on all patients ages 13 and older will be one of the objectives, so ask the EHR vendor to show you how their solution prompts you and/or your staff to ask the patient, document the response, and then generate the collective data for reporting.
Articulating your needs and requirements is just the first step for effective evaluation of system demonstrations.
The second step is to use those needs to create a scoring tool to track and document the EHR demonstration against the needs.
Keep the scoring simple. A 3-2-1 system will do just fine. The vendor scores a “3″ for a specific need if the system exceeds your requirement, a “2″ for meeting your requirements and a “1″ if the system does not meet your requirements. The higher the vendor’s score, the better fit the system is for your practice.
How does the scoring tool help after you’ve viewed three or four demonstrations? You can approach the comparison several ways.
The most basic — though not necessarily the best — way is to look at the total score for each product. High score wins and that’s the one you buy.
Or you can compare the vendors on each “need” individually. Clearly if a vendor scored a “1″ on each element, that product is a no-go. That’s probably unlikely, though, so you’ll need to prioritize your “needs.” Again, the product that has the highest scores on the most number of top-priority elements is your winner.
It may also help to have a “deal-breaker” need. If a vendor scores a “1″ on that one item, even if his system has “2″s and “3″s on all the others, you might want to rule it out.
You may also decide to include some “nice-to-have” features on your list. If so, scores on those items may tip the scale for one product over another.
It is easy to get distracted during a demo by all the features and functions the company representative will show you. Many systems have polished user interfaces and many demonstration specialists have perfected their skill at showing off the sizzle in their system.
But if you begin the demo preparation with the end in mind — by clearly articulating your objectives and vision for your EHR implementation — you will identify the solution that will have the greatest opportunity for successful use in your practice.
Focus on how the solution meets your requirements, not on the man behind the screen as you travel down the road to your EHR selection.
Rosemarie Nelson is a principal with the MGMA Health Care Consulting Group.
Originally published in MedPage Today. Visit MedPageToday.com for more practice management news.
