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Your Update to All Things Beacon and Meaningful Use |
Greetings!
Welcome to the 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 updated on recent program activities. We look forward to working together helping you achieve your Beacon Aims and Meaningful Use goals.
BEACON COMMUNITY UPDATE |
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Video Presentations from Beacon Learning Session #3 Now Available
Videos from the Beacon Learning Session #3 are now available for viewing. The presentations can be accessed here.
(Please note that the link will take you to Vimeo.com to watch the videos)
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Highlighting Dr. Barbara E. Rizzardi and her staff's accomplishments as an IC3 Beacon Clinic
Question: How have you found time to be so successful with your aims and "moving" Beacon measures, in addition to working towards Meaningful Use attestation, since you are the only provider in your small clinic?
Answer: I'm not a team of one. I have a very supportive staff. They've become very engaged in generating lists, and excellent at facilitating reminders and reviewing diagnoses. Your enthusiasm helps me to be enthusiastic! I'm excited about medicine and being part of a much bigger group. FULL ARTICLE>>> |
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Promoting Healthy Weight, Access to Health Care and Healthy Births to Diverse Utah Communities
Community members helped the Utah Department of Health Office of Health Disparities Reduction (OHD) create new health videos designed for Utah Pacific Islanders in English, Tongan, and Samoan. OHD is distributing the videos to community-based organizations, churches, health care organizations, and individuals to promote obesity prevention, healthy pregnancies, and preventive health care. (Versions are available for African Americans and Hispanics as well.)
The videos are available at http://www.health.utah.gov/disparities/community/ForMeForUs.html.
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Upcoming Webinar: Introduction to Engaging Patients in their Care (January 12, 2012)
Effectively engaging patients in planning their own care is crucial. While traditional patient education provides information and can help to develop a patient's technical skills, the goal of self-management education is to engage the patient to successfully solve self-identified problems. Shared decision-making, also referred to as "motivational interviewing", is the process of developing a shared plan with the patient.
For more information about the program and to register click here.
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*Incentives Update*
34% of providers who have received their incentives in Nevada and Utah are working with the Regional Extension Center, HealthInsight. |
The Road to Meaningful Use
As a HealthInsight partner you have taken the first steps along the path to Meaningful Use. 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 | 510 | 756 | | Northern | 153 | 788 | | Without EHR | 209 | 90 | | Southern | 538 | 30 | | Total | 719 | 846 | | Rural | 28 | 28 | | | | | Total | 714 | 846 |
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Milestones
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) tracks providers' progress towards Meaningful Use using three milestone categories for Stage 1:
Milestone 1: Provider is participating in the REC program.
Milestone 2: Provider is live on an EHR system, generating quality reports, and actively e-prescribing.
Milestone 3: Provider has reached Meaningful Use and has successfully attested via Medicare or Medicaid.
The table below indicates the number of providers who have achieved each milestone thus far. |
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By provider |
Nevada |
Utah |
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Milestone 1 |
394 |
344 |
738 | | |
Milestone 2 |
280 |
453 |
733 | | |
Milestone 3 |
45 |
49 |
94 | | |
Total |
719 |
846 |
1565 | |
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CMS' New Medicare EHR Incentive Program Guide for Eligible Professionals (EPs)
CMS has created a new comprehensive tool, An Introduction to the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for Eligible Professionals, to help guide you through all of the phases of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program-from eligibility and registration to attestation and payment. Chapters provide information on:
- EHR Incentive Program basics
- How to participate (determining eligibility and registration)
- Meaningful use and choosing measures
- Attestation
- Helpful resources on the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
The guide is interactive and users can click on sections of the Table of Contents to learn more about specific areas of the program. Interactive tabs are also included at the bottom of each page where users can jump from chapter to chapter. Additionally, each section provides readers with user-friendly screen shots, charts, and links to the CMS website.
The guide can be found on the Educational Materials section of the EHR website, along with several other helpful tools and resources for participants in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. |
New Web Page Provides Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs Payment and Registration Data
CMS has created a new web page where you can find Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program payment and registration data. The page includes up-to-date information about the programs through October 2011. The new web page will be your resource for updates regarding the programs' registration, payment, and state Medicaid launches.
Overview of Content on the Data and Reports Page
The web page includes the following information:
- A Map that Illustrates a State Breakdown of Payments to Medicare and Medicaid Providers
- A Map that Illustrates a State Breakdown of Registration by Medicaid and Medicare Providers
- A Map that Illustrates a State Breakdown of Registration by Medicare Providers
- A Map that Illustrates a State Breakdown of Registration by Medicaid Providers
- Individual State Report of Registrants and Payments
- Updates on State Launches of Medicaid EHR Program
- List of Recipients of Medicare EHR Incentive Program Payments
You can use the maps to see how your state compares to others in registration and payment totals for the EHR Incentive Programs.
October Highlights
Below are some highlights about the EHR Incentive Programs from data through October 2011 that are now featured on the new page:
- Over 135,000 Medicare and Medicaid providers have registered for the programs
- Over $525 million in Medicare payments have been provided to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals
Over $710 million in Medicaid payment have been provided to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals
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Provider Spotlight
Davis Family Physicians successfully attested all of their physicians for Meaningful Use by November 4th, 2011, but their efforts began years ago to discover ways to improve patient care and care coordination.
HealthInsight began working with Jon Goates, Practice Administrator, and Catherine 'Caz' Zuniga, EHR System Administrator (now working as a McKesson systems consultant) back in January of 2007 when they joined the Medicare Care Management Performance pilot project. Since that time, they have worked tirelessly to support their providers in improvements in their processes and in their EHR system towards better documentation of care. FULL ARTICLE>>> |
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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.
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