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Your Update to All Things Beacon and Meaningful Use |
Greetings!
Welcome to the IC3 Beacon Community and Meaningful Use bi-monthly 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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Visit the New and Improved Beacon Resources Webpage!
The IC3 Beacon Team has recently updated the Beacon resources webpage. You and your clinic will find useful links for the following resources:
- Utah Diabetes Practice Recommendations (UDPR)
- Enhancing diabetes care through the use of electronic health records
- Workflow and quality of diabetes care
- Patient Engagement Tools
- Redesigning the health care team
*Please click here to visit the Beacon resources page*
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Beacon Clinics Have Major Impact on Diabetes Care
HealthInsight has been collecting de-identified data from clinic electronic health records (EHRs) as it has become available since Beacon launched in 2010. Beacon analysts consider the 4th quarter of 2010 as the first data- point for baseline measures. Specific clinic data has not been shared with anyone outside each clinic, although each clinic is provides data to receive feedback on their own performance compared to a "community average." Many of you have wondered and asked about Beacon's impact in the community. <<FULL ARTICLE>> |
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Take Our Short Survey, Be Part of a Raffle for Two Movie Tickets!
The Beacon eNewsletter was created in March of 2011 to help IC3 Beacon participants with care improvement, electronic health record information, patient engagement tools, spotlight Beacon Clinics' success, and to inform of Beacon community events.
We are still learning how to make newsletter information more relevant and informative for all readers after a year of newsletter writing experience. To better understand your organization's needs, please take our short survey on SurveyMonkey.com and you will be automatically entered into our raffle for two movie tickets!
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Mark Your Calendars for the Diabetes Specialty Center's Free Diabetes Education Classes
The Diabetes Speciality Center is offering two of their diabetes education classes for free. The "Diabetes and Neuropathy" and "Coping with Diabetes" classes are open to all interested parties. For additional information, please contact Susan Elms at (801) 369-7138 or selms@diabetesspecialty.com. |
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Details:
"Coping with Diabetes" with Dr. Robert Burr
When: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Where: Diabetes Specialty Center, 3793 S. State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 |
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IC3 Beacon Video Clips Now Available to the Public
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HealthInsight's Heidi Smith interviews West Valley City Firefighter, Chuck Cruz, for a segment on the ePOLST. |
The IC3 Beacon Team released nine video clips to show some of the important Beacon work accomplished in Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele Counties in the past year. Subject matter includes an overview of the Beacon Project, Clinical Health Information Exchange (cHIE), Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment, value of teamwork for quality improvement, and patient engagement tools available now.
We would like to thank each organization that took time out of their busy schedule to help the Beacon Team film the videos.
All nine IC3 Beacon videos can be accessed by clicking here.
*Please note that clicking on the above link will redirect you to Vimeo.com. Vimeo is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, share, and view videos.*
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The Road to Meaningful Use
HealthInsight is proud to announce that the Regional Extension Center consistently exceeded the goals of the Office of the National Coordinator in assisting you and your colleagues in EHR adoption and Meaningful Use. Our programs in both states are fully enrolled, with nearly half of you using certified EHR systems to send electronic prescriptions and generate quality reports. Eight percent of you have already attested to Stage 1 Meaningful Use! Congratulations to all of the REC participants who are continuing to take strides to improve the quality of care for their patients.
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Number of Healthcare Providers | |
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Utah |
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Participating with the REC |
721 |
867 |
1588 | |
Implemented a certified EHR and using e-rx and quality reporting features |
344 |
531 |
875 | |
Successfully attested to Meaningful Use |
82 |
139 |
221 |
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Physicians EHR Presents "Crisis Management for Breaches, OCR Complaints and Audits"
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
1:00pm MST/12:00pm PST
During this live, 60-minute webinar, HIPAA Plain and Simple author and Physicians EHR CEO, Carolyn Hartley, MLA, along with distinguished guest speaker and healthcare attorney, Rebecca Frigy, Esq. MPH, will educate your practice on new, problem-solving approaches to managing breaches, OCR complaints and audits.
Who Should Attend:
- Practice Administrators
- Attorneys
- Providers and Nurses
- CEOs
- Physicians Transitioning to Health IT
Register NOW and also receive a complimentary Data Breach Response plan to help navigate your practice through a security crisis. |
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Provider Spotlight
Brand Reynolds, NP works out of a rural location in Tooele, Utah. This community has a lot of seniors and struggles with diabetes. Over the past 2 years, Brand has sought out assistance from the Regional Extension Center and the Beacon project and has had some great results. Despite being a small operation, he has recently hired a care manager to provide additional support for his chronically ill patients. His patients are also happier with his level of care. Additionally, he has implemented meaningful use and performed well on the Beacon project (diabetes care) without being eligible for Meaningful Use dollars. His altruistic motives have paid off. He has mentioned that he has seen an increase in business as a result of participating in the meaningful use and Beacon work. Great job Brand Reynolds and thanks for your work on quality in Tooele!
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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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This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the Beacon Community, under Cooperative Agreement grant #90BC00006 from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department |
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