E-NewsletterSeptember 2012
In This Issue
Final Program for the Fall Meeting
Tort Reform Newsletter Focuses on Liability in Missouri and Oklahoma
AMA Alert on Final Rule for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use

Save The Date! 


Midwest AAOE 
Fall Meeting
 
October 5-6, 2012
 
Doubletree by Hilton
Overland Park, KS


 

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Program Committee Releases Final Program for Fall Meeting!


In these ever-changing times in health care, can you afford to miss any information? Your Midwest AAOE education committee is hard at work finalizing a great program for Fall 2012. We will meet in Kansas at the Double Tree in Overland Park on October 5th and 6th.

Click Here for the final program. Please note the expanded tracks for administrators and support staff. We hope you will encourage more of your staff to attend and become Associate Members of the Midwest AAOE.

Meeting Registration is available online by visiting https://www.regonline.com/fallaaoemeeting .

The hotel is ready to accept your housing requests using the information below. Please make sure you tell them you are participating in the Midwest AAOE Conference to secure the room rate of $84.

Housing Instructions:

Room assignments will be made directly with the Doubletree by Hilton Overland Park Kansas by calling the hotel room reservation department at 913-451-6100. In doing so, please make sure to request the group rate for Midwest AAOE. The room rate is $84 per night. The cut-off date for hotel rooms in our room block is September 13, 2012.

Online reservations are available by visiting the link below:
http://tinyurl.com/723sebt

Hope to see you there.


Chuck Burris, Kevin Laney, and Mike Stephenson
Fall 2012 Education Committee

Tort Reform Newsletter Focuses on Liability Issues in Missouri and Oklahoma

Know the audience you are writing to. What are they hoping to hear from you? What would they find useful or informative? Find out what is important to them and address their needs in your newsletter each month. Include a photo or photos to make your newsletter even more appealing. Inserting a link in your article lets you track which topics attract the most interest.A mixed bag of news on medical liability appears in this month's enewsletter from the tort reform advocacy group, Protect Patients Now. The newsletter focuses on recent developments in Missouri with the court ruling that repeals the caps on non-economic damages. On a positive note, signs in Oklahoma reveal an improving situation based on their recent liability reforms. 
 
 To read the entire newsletter, visit the following site:
http://www.protectpatientsnow.org/content/august-2012-newsletter#1
 
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AMA Alert on Final Rule for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has just published the Final Rule for Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. AMA staff is reviewing the 670 page regulation and we will provide an analysis in the near future. Below are links to information that CMS has posted on the rule.
 
A fact sheet on CMS's final rule is available at http://www.cms.gov/apps/media/fact_sheets.asp.

A detailed fact sheet on ONC's standards and certification criteria final rule is available at http://healthit.hhs.gov/standardsandcertification.
 
The final rules announced today may be viewed at http://www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1. More information on the Stage 2 rule can be found at the CMS EHR Incentive Programs website at www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms.



 
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