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Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 1-2 pm MDT
Intro to Building and Governing Your HIPAA Compliance Program
Presented by HealthInsight
Webinar Description
This webinar will help you to establish a foundation for your organizations HIPAA compliance efforts and increase your comfort level as a privacy and/or security officer.
Agenda
- Review of Essential Terms
- Introduction to the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules
- Introduction to Documentation and Periodic Tasks
- Strategies to Govern Your HIPAA Program
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 1-2 pm MDT PIN UP - Lessons Learned Presented by Health Technology Services Webinar Description Montana's Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) and Montana Hospital Association (MHA) funded Performance Improvement Network's Unleashing the Power (PIN UP) project is winding down. Now we want to share what we've learned with you! Join Mary Erickson of Health Technology Services, department of Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, as she shares lessons learned, successes and obstacles.
Wednesday, July 16, 2016 - 1-2 pm MDT
2016 Meaningful Use Mid Year Review
Presented by Health Technology Services
Webinar Description
Are you completing the needed tasks for Meaningful Use reporting for 2016? Join Patty Kosednar, HTS Consultant, to review what you need to know and do to successfully attest to Meaningful Use for the 2016 reporting year. We will also provide an overview of the alignment/conversion of the existing MU program into MACRA/MIPS for 2017.
Agenda
- Review the of requirements for 2016 MU reporting
- Share the list of tasks and deadlines needed to meet the requirements
- Provide suggestions on how to overcome obstacles in reporting
- Overview of MU program alignment with MACRA/MIPS for 2017
- Open Q&A session
SAVE THE DATE for Upcoming HIPAA Webinars!
Introduction to Essential Steps for HIPAA Compliance
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
1-2 p.m. MDT
Introduction to Preparing for a HIPAA Audit
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
1-2 p.m. MDT
Did You Miss our Latest Webinar - Are You Planning for 2016 PQRS?
Need help with your PQRS planning? On May 18, Sarah Leake, Technology and Quality Consultant with Health Technology Services, reviewed changes in the 2016 PQRS program and key dates for scheduling your activities. We also looked at the pros and cons of group versus individual reporting as well as options you have for reporting. View the recording and presentation slides.
Do you have a webinar topic you would like us to present? Email your hot topic to Deb Anderson. See our upcoming webinars.
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We are about halfway through the year, and half way through your meaningful use reporting period for 2016. Following are the items you should either have completed or be working on for providers and hospitals.
- Confirm ongoing submission or active engagement with public health registries (or ability to take exclusions)
- Determine your Medicaid eligibility (if appropriate)
- Periodically run your YTD MU reports and check performance for all measures and correct workflows as needed
- For the electronic access measure, have at least one patient seen view, download or transfer health information (1 per hospital for EH, 1 per provider for EPs)
- (EP only) For the electronic secure messaging measure - have at least one patient receive an electronic email via CEHRT (one per provider)
- Perform or revise your HIPAA security risk assessment
Register now for the 2016 MU Mid Year Review webinar on July 16th where you will learn what the requirements are for 2016 MU reporting.
See 2016 MU Resources
Find all the latest Meaningful Use resources on our HTS website. Need assistance with MU? Please contact HTS for questions on MU and HIPAA SRA services.
eClinical Quality Improvement(eCQI): What are some ways to advance my quality improvement activities to increase performance on quality measures and improve outcomes?
Electronically facilitated clinical quality improvement (eCQI) uses a variety of processes and tools to help continuously improve care and support improved health. eCQI is not only about a set of health IT tools but also about helping people to design and maintain efficient processes that make effective use of technology to sustain continuous improvement cycles and optimize care quality and outcomes. See more information from CMS on eCQI.
HTS has created an eCQI Toolkit to act as a practical guide to assist organizations with leveraging health information technology (HIT) and the Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) process improvement methodology to support and advance their health quality improvement initiatives. This toolkit is designed:
- to provide eCQI tools and resources that may be used by organizations to help manage their eCQI priorities in an organized, efficient and repeatable manner
- for use by inpatient and outpatient organizations who are currently utilizing certified EHRs to manage patient encounters
- to help identify, align and manage quality initiatives for both internal and external QI goals
Find all the latest eCQI resources on our HTS website. Need assistance with eCQI? Please contact HTS.
Meaningful Use (MU): Workflows, Workflows, Workflows - why is everyone talking about workflows?
Everyone is talking about workflows because they are a key factor in improving the use of your EHR! How data is being entered into your system affects the downstream functionality and quality reporting from your system.
How do you get started looking at workflows? Where are your data errors? What workflow irritates your users? Start there!
You can get help looking at EHR workflows at our HTS website or email our workflow expert, Mary Erickson, HIT/Quality Improvement Consultant at Health Technology Services, or call at 406.521.0488.
Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS): Where can I find information on current PQRS participation and payment adjustments?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the 2014 Reporting Experience Including Trends (2007-2015), referred to as the 2014 PQRS Experience Report.
The annual PQRS Experience Report provides data and trends on participation, incentive eligibility, incentive payments and payment adjustments as applicable since the beginning of PQRS, including measure performance and program participation broken down by specialty and geographic location. The full report can be found on the PQRS Analysis and Payment webpage.
Some highlights:
- Participation increased by 11 percent in 2014 from 2013.
- Participation via Electronic Health Record (EHR) more than doubled in number since 2013.
- 558,885 EPs are currently subject to the 2016 PQRS negative payment adjustment.
- The 2014 PQRS incentive payments paid equaled $224,088,411.
Read more information about PQRS, including information on how to avoid the negative payment adjustment.
Need help with PQRS - email Sarah Leake, HTS Health Technology and Quality Consultant, or check out our new 2016 HTS Services designed to help you stay current with changing regulations for MU, MACRA, PQRS and so much more.
HIPAA Security: Being HIPAA compliant is part of how physicians will get paid in MACRA!
On April 27, CMS announced a proposed rule on how physicians will get paid under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). The foundation of this new system is tying physician payments to quality and value, and is directly related to the Triple Aim of improving patient experience, improving population health and reducing costs.
Without going into the details -- what is important to know is that the MACRA regulation changes the fundamental Fee-For-Service (FFS) system that CMS has used since Medicare's enactment in 1966. It is also important to know that in order to receive a substantial portion of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and maximize revenue opportunity, each provider will have to perform a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis (SRA) within their practice. Protecting patient health information is a requirement of MIPS, and failure to meet this requirement will result in a hit to your payments.
Need help with your organization's privacy and security requirements? Email Susan Clarke, ISC2 Certified Health Care Information Security and Privacy Practitioner with Health Technology Services, or call 307.248.8179.
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