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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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Save the Date - Wednesday, May 23rd!
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.
We invite you and your colleagues to this landmark event in Salt Lake City where we will jump-start our community collaboration to promote the best in patient-centered care.
Registration information will be available next week.
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Diet and Prevention Strategies: Kidney Insufficiency with Diabetes
Join the Utah Diabetes Prevention and Control Program on
Wednesday, April 18th, for the next installment of their monthly continuing diabetes education series.
Diabetes Telehealth Series Details
EDT: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm - CDT: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
MDT: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - MST/PDT: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
There is no cost to participate.
Presentation objectives:
- Learn how to better help our diabetic patients prevent kidney failure.
- Write and teach correct diet therapy in each of the 5 stages of kidney disease.
Register to participate via video conference, webstream, or telephone by visiting on the Utah Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (click here)
Please send any questions to Betsi Patino or Grant Sunada.
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Patient-Centered Materials and Tools Available Now
To help support efforts in improving the quality of health care in local communities across the nation, the Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has recently released free patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) materials. The PCOR materials are now available to help you review treatment options together with your patients.
To learn more about the free PCOR materials, please visit www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov.
Free Diabetes-Specific CME/CE Activities
Visit Effective Health Care Program: CME/CE for free continuing education tools and activities now available to all IC3 Beacon Clinics.
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Mark Your Calendars for the Diabetes Specialty Center's Next Diabetes Education Class
The Diabetes Speciality Center is offering a free diabetes education class on "The "Weight"ier Matters of Diabetes". This class is 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:
"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 |
The Road to Meaningful Use |
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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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REC Customer Satisfaction Survey
You are a valued participant in the HealthInsight Regional Extension Center (REC) Program. We would like your input on how we can enhance our processes and improve your experience with HealthInsight. We appreciate your help and look forward to continuing the work together toward helping you achieve Meaningful Use.
In order to access the survey, please click here, or copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MUSurvey1
Survey Closes 4/18/12
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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. |
| 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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