IC3 Beacon Community and Meaningful Use Update

Your Update to All Things Beacon and Meaningful Use

In This Issue

Greetings!

Welcome to the new IC³ Beacon Community and Meaningful Use bi-weekly newsletter! You are a valued participant in the HealthInsight Regional Extension Center (REC) and Beacon programs. We hope you find this series of emails educational and informative as we keep you up-to-date on recent program activities. We look forward to working together to help you achieve your Beacon Aims and Meaningful Use goals.

BEACON COMMUNITY UPDATE

Last Chance to Register for the Second Beacon Learning Session

Don't forget to register for the second IC³Utah Beacon Community Learning Session being held on August 11^th, at Intermountain Medical Center's Doty Education Facility.

Topics to include:

Partnering With Your Patient: Patient Self-Management Training for Your Clinical Team
Get Them Together: Diabetes Care Group Office Visits and a How-To for Running Documenting and Billing
Beacon Clinic Improvement Stories from the Field: Share Ideas for Improvement
How to Use the Virtual Health Record (VHR) and the Clinical Health Information Exchange (cHIE): Update and Training

REGISTER HERE

HealthInsight is Pleased to Introduce UtahHealthScape

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UtahHealthScape is the first-of-its kind Web portal for Utah health consumers. UtahHealthScape is a one-stop shop for patients interested in learning more about clinic and doctor characteristics, and service offerings. Developed as a community public service, UtahHealthscape is non-commercial and will not feature paid advertising.

UtahHealthScape features useful content on a variety of health topics. Written in simple language, this original content aims to educate users on self-management practices and lifestyle choices that improve health.

Please get in touch with us during the review period which ends August 31^st if you have feedback regarding your profile or the site in general. You can direct comments to Jeff Black, jblack@healthinsight.org.

To request your own provider login:

1. Go to the UtahHealthScape home page (www.utahhealthscape.org) and click on the "Provider Log in" button in the lower right corner of the screen.

2. Click on the "Request an account" link in the blue box.

3. Fill out the form and agree to the "terms and conditions".

4. HealthInsight will verify your identify and send a temporary password through your preferred method of contact, either by email or phone.

5. Log in to your account and reset your password. You may now edit your personal listing information.

We encourage you to take advantage of this free opportunity to reach new patients and market your offerings. I hope you will find UtahHealthScape to be a valuable resource for our community.

HealthInsight is Pleased to Announce that Applications are Now Being Accepted for the 2011 Physician Office Quality Award

The HealthInsight Physician Office Quality Award aims to promote excellence in health care. High performing physician office practices will improve the quality of health care they provide, using available quality data to identify gaps in care processes.

The 2011 Physician Office HealthInsight Quality Award will be presented to physician office practices that meet the following criteria:

Adoption of Health Information Technology,
Regular use of population care management methods,
Participation in a data reporting quality initiative; and
Exemplary performance on nationally-recognized clinical outcome measures.

Click here for more information about the HealthInsight Quality Award program; to download the physician office application, please click here .

Physician office practices must submit their applications by September 15, 2011 to be considered for the award. Awards will be presented in late 2011.

For more information, contact:

Utah - David Cook at 801-892-6623 or dcook@healthinsight.org

Key Topics for Clinical Transformation Registries

Registries serve a number of purposes. The ultimate purpose of a registry is to enable providers to take care of their patients proactively, in a population-based fashion. The day has passed when individuals with uncontrolled diabetes are only managed when presenting to a provider's office. Providers with registries will now know of all patients with uncontrolled diabetes, allowing a vigorous, proactive approach to managing them. Monitoring and assistance can be improved with a registry. FULL ARTICLE>>>

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The Road to Meaningful Use

As a HealthInsight partner you have taken the first steps on the path to Meaningful Use. Do you ever wonder how many of your colleagues have joined you on this journey? Curious to know what phase they are in, or how close they are to attestation? HealthInsight has compiled information in regards to our partners to share with you.

By provider	Nevada	Utah	By provider	Nevada	Utah
With EHR	448	613	Northern	164	628
Without EHR	227	65	Southern	486	30
Total	675	678	Rural	25	20
			Total	675	678

HealthInsight REC Participants Among First to Attest to

Meaningful Use

In June, the HealthInsight Regional Extension Center had the privilege of honoring the first two clinics in the Nevada/Utah region to attest to Meaningful Use, Bountiful Family Healthcare in Utah and Silver Sage Center for Family Medicine in Nevada. In recognition for championing the creation of an electronically-enabled health care system for better patient care, eligible providers at both clinics have been deemed Meaningful Use Vanguards or MUVers. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) endorses the MUVer program.

Dr. Andrew Pasternak and Dr. Teresa Angermann of Silver Sage Center for Family Medicine successfully attested to Meaningful Use on May 5, 2011. Dr. Pasternak was HealthInsight's first provider to achieve this milestone. Silver Sage Center for Family Medicine in Nevada is the subject of a case study by their EMR vendor, e-MDs, and continues to move forward in adopting the technologies available to increase quality of care.

Dr. Brian Rodgers from Bountiful Family Healthcare successfully attested to Meaningful Use on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. He was HealthInsight's first physician in Utah to achieve this milestone and bring our community closer toward an electronically-enabled health care system.

In early June, 2011, we had the opportunity to celebrate our MUVers achievements. HealthInsight presented each physician with a plaque and a certificate from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). In addition, Corey Laulom from HealthFusion (Dr. Rodgers EHR vendor) flew in for the celebration.

We would like to congratulate Drs. Pasternak, Angermann, and Rodgers, as well as their individual staff members, in this great accomplishment. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to improving the quality of healthcare.

Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Provider Communications Group hosted a national provider conference call on the 2011 Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program. The target audience was all Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) providers. Subject matter experts provided an overview of the proposed Physician Fee Schedule rule. The presentation can be accessed on the CMS website.

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Contact Us

Please contact the REC Team at:

Email: rec@healthinsight.org

Phone: (800) 483-0932

Please contact the Beacon Team at:

Email: dsmith@healthinsight.org

Phone: 801-892-6655 (David Smith)

For more information, visit the IC³Beacon Community website

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This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the Regional Extension Center for Nevada and Utah, under grant #90RC0033/01 from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services.