Your Update to All Things Beacon and Meaningful Use

Educating Patients About the Clinical Health Information Exchange (cHIE)

Jordan Meadows Medical Center Story of Success 

 

The staff at Jordan Meadows Medical Center in West Jordan has fully embraced quality improvement measurement and electronic health record use, under the guidance of their Beacon Community "Champion," Debra Bowen. Jordan Meadows is part of the HealthInsight Beacon Community Program, a national initiative to improve diabetes care processes. The staff was recently asked about their significant success in getting patients to consent to the Utah Clinical Health Information Exchange (cHIE). The front desk staff, instrumental to this accomplishment, shared their specific workflow processes for cHIE consent. <<FULL ARTICLE>>

 

Members of the IC3 Beacon Team, UHIN, and Jordan Meadows Clinic standing with a stack of cHIE Patient Consent forms that have been filled out by patients.

 

Save the Date! Wednesday May 23, 2012

Patient Centered Care in Action Learning and Action Networks Kick-Off Event

HealthInsight and the IC³ Beacon Community are pleased to announce the launch of  Learning and Action Networks in Utah, which will focus on:

• Improving cardiac health
• Promoting the use of health information technology
• Improving transitions of care between facilities, agencies, and patients' homes.  

Learning and Action Networks (LANs) bring together communities to learn and explore ways to solve complex problems.

We invite you to join your professional and regionally-based colleagues as we jump-start our collaboration to provide the best in patient-centered care. As a Learning and Action Network participant, you will be making a difference in your community!  

Click here to view the PDF flyer of this event. This flyer includes more information about location, time of event and contact information.

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*

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. 

Details:

"The Weighter Matters of Diabetes" with Emily Gilgen, Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator.

When: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm

Where: Diabetes Specialty Center, 3793 S. State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84115  

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!

Stage 2 Meaningful Use Proposed Rule Webinar

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the proposed rule for Stage 2 Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. Since then, there's been a lot of buzz and plenty of questions surrounding the proposed rule. Rest assured your HealthInsight Regional Extension Center team is on top of this hot topic and is hard at work making sure your transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 is seamless.

We know you do not have time to read the over 455-page document, so we are developing materials to help you understand the proposed changes. In addition, we are sponsoring this live webinar to discuss which changes affect you and collect your comments to send to CMS during the 60-day comment period.

There are two options available for you to attend.  Please click on one of the links below to register.

Wednesday, April 18th at 8:00 am MDT/7:00 am PDT 

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