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Greetings!
Welcome to the August 2012 issue of the IL-HITREC INTERCHANGE. This newsletter is your resource for news and information on the REC program in Illinois. |
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IL providers get $209,063,161 in EHR programs | |
More than 100,000 health care providers have been paid under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced June 19. Of those, 4,570 eligible providers in Illinois have received $209,063,161 in payments. Read the complete article |
| Partnering with RECs increases provider likelihood of receiving EHR incentive payments |
Over the past two years, Regional Extension Centers like IL-HITREC have been working with health care providers to help them overcome the challenges of adopting and implementing electronic health records (EHRs). The Government Accountability Office released a report on July 26, that found health care providers who partnered with an REC were more than twice as likely to receive an incentive payment under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. Read the complete article |
IL-HITREC joins September celebration of
National Health IT Week: One Voice. One Vision |
To mark the important role health information technology plays in improving healthcare delivery in America, IL-HITREC is joining other organizations across the U.S. as a partner in celebrating National Health IT Week Sept. 10-14, 2012. The NHIT Week theme is "One Voice. One Vision." IL-HITREC, as a partner in the advancement of health information technology to help improve healthcare, is joining approximately 200 public and private sector organizations to participate in the Seventh Annual National Health IT Week. Read the complete article |
| IL-HITREC promotes Telligen PQRS project |
Users of qualified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in Illinois are invited to participate in an exciting program being offered by Telligen, the federally-contracted Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) to aid in improving the quality and frequency of preventive health care services throughout the state of Illinois.
Telligen is working with a select number of eligible professionals on the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) EHR Direct Reporting project. By participating in this program, Telligen will help to make sure practices are earning the maximum incentives available for PQRS reporting, in addition to the Meaningful Use incentives. Read the entire article, complete with enrollment form and facts booklet. |
| A Provider's Story: Going Electronic is Team Sport! | |
[Editor's note: Dr. Marie T. Brown, MD, FACP, and Dr. Janet Y. Forbes MD, whose practice is Forbes and Brown in Oak Park,recently achieved Stage 1 Meaningful Use attestation. Their personal account follows.]
"Our team is pretty small (there are only six of us)-two doctors, two LPNs and two front desk staff (no IT department, no education department, and no HR or billing department). I had been quoted as saying, 'I'll retire before I go electronic.' So when it came time to choose and implement an EHR, it was up to two very busy physicians with no experience and great trepidation. Fortunately, we noticed a mailing offering support from IL-HITREC. It felt like someone threw us a life preserver." Read the complete article |
ILHIE Direct supports coordinated care;
Webinar scheduled Aug. 29 | |
ILHIE Direct Messaging Solution helps practices deliver the right health services in the right order at the right time. Whether you call it "coordinated care" or something else--integrated care, connected care, transitions of care or medical home care--ILHIE Direct can help your practice provide better patient quality through HIPAA compliant messaging. ILHIE Direct can be used to send clinical summaries, lab result reports, transition of care documents, discharge summaries, referrals, continuity of care documents, medical home updates, images up to 120MB, and anything else you normally can send or attach to an e-mail. Read the complete article |
| Holloway reports on IRHA activities |
IL-HITREC Co-Executive Director, Roger Holloway, helps spread the message about health information technology and Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records throughout the year while participating in numerous health care conferences across Illinois and the nation. As Past President of the Illinois Rural Health Association (IRHA), Holloway participated in the organization's Legislative Reception in Springfield and also at the Annual Conference in Effingham. Read the complete article |
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