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Wednesday, July 13, 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
Wednesday, July 26, 2016 - 1-2 pm MDT
Introduction to Essential Steps for HIPAA Compliance
Presented by HealthInsight
Webinar Description
This free one-hour webinar will continue to build on the foundation needed to build your HIPAA program and protect your practice and patients from the harm of HIPAA violations.
Thursday, July 27, 2016 - 2-3 pm MDT
Presented by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health
Webinar Description
In this monthly PQRS/QPP Learning Action Network webinar, we will share updates from CMS on the Physician Quality Reporting System and the emerging Quality Payment Program as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (commonly known as MACRA) is put into place.
Our goals are to help you implement changes to meet the requirements of these programs and to provide an environment that is dynamic and responsive to your needs. It is also a time for you to share your knowledge, wisdom, and experiences to help your peers.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 1-2 pm MDT
Mobile Technology in Health Care: Privacy and Security Considerations
Presented by Health Technology Services
Webinar Description
Mobile technologies are expected to remain one of the top CIO priorities through 2016. This is for good reason with a reported 90 percent of health care providers currently utilizing mobile devices and security experts warning of significant risks to their organizations.
Join Heath Technology Services for a discussion on the advantages offered by mobile technology, the threats to your mobile device security and what safeguards can be implemented to help protect your organization from becoming the next easy target.
Wednesday, August 30, 2016 - 1-2 pm MDT
Introduction to Preparing for a HIPAA Audit
Presented by HealthInsight
Webinar Description
As a part of its continued efforts to assess compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has begun its next phase of audits of covered entities and their business associates. This webinar will help prepare your organization and protect you from financial and reputational harm.
Coming in September - Webinar on Patient Engagement!
Did You Miss our Latest Webinar - Making Sense of Clinical Quality Reporting?
Need help understanding how to do your quality reporting? On June 21, Mary Erickson, HIT/Quality Improvement Consultant with Health Technology Services reviewed hospital and eligible professional quality reporting requirements for the Meaningful Use program as well as inpatient and outpatient quality reporting in 2016. 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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For providers and hospitals that still need to attest to 2015 MU for the Medicaid program, following is the state level registry (SLR) entry and deadline info:
- Alaska
EP - SLR closed for 2015 attestations EH - SLR due to open 8/1 (estimated) for 2015 attestations - Hawaii
EP - SLR deadline is 7/31/16 for 2015 attestations EH - SLR due to open 8/1 (estimated) for 2015 attestations - Montana
EP - SLR deadline is 7/29/16 for 2015 attestations EH - SLR due to open 8/1 (estimated) for 2015 attestations - Wyoming
EP - SLR closed for 2015 attestations EH - SLR closed for 2015 attestations
The timeframes above are the most current at this time. You may want to check your local SLR for further information.
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.
Patient Engagement: Are you using your patient portal successfully to engage your patients in their health and care?
Many health care practices across the country are seeing the benefits of EHR patient portal implementation - more effective delivery of care, reduced burden on office staff, and informed, engaged patients.
But there can be challenges - cumbersome enrollment, clunky interfaces, reluctant patients, doctors, and office staff as well as privacy and security questions.
ONC has just released a new resource designed to help engage your patients in their health care - the Patient Engagement Playbook. This new resource is a compilation of tips and best practices collected from providers and health systems who want to actively engage their patients in their health and well being. In this Patient Engagement Playbook, ONC will demystify patient portals and tell you how you can make them work for you and your patients.
Do you need assistance understanding your patient portal? Please contact HTS.
Electronic Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR): Who is required to report inpatient quality reporting measures electronically for reporting year 2016?
If your organization is a PPS hospital participating in the inpatient quality reporting program (IQR), you are REQUIRED to report
at least 4 measures electronically for reporting year 2016 to avoid payment adjustments in Federal Fiscal Year 2018.
The data submission deadline will be February 28, 2017, and you may report data from 2016 quarter 3 or 4. Access the CMS checklist to help you get started.
Critical Access Hospitals are not yet required to report electronically. However, there is a proposed rule currently being considered that would require ALL hospitals to report all CQMs electronically for calendar year 2017. The comment period on this ruling closed June 17, 2016, and a final ruling is expected in August. It is safe to say that electronic quality measure reporting is on its way for everyone very soon!
Don't panic, there's still time to prepare! Contact HTS for help getting started with electronic quality measure reporting!
Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS): PQRS Group or Individual Reporting - The Decision is Over!
The June 30th deadline for Group Reporting Option is past! Congratulations on completing this milestone in the PQRS reporting process. What is an important next step in the PQRS Process? Measure selection is a valuable next step and provides an opportunity to align with other quality reporting programs in your organization. A focus on common measures for monitoring and reporting can contribute to efficiency in data collection and improved outcomes.
During the June Learning and Action Network webinar, a tool was demonstrated that can assist with measure selection. The 2016 PQRS Single Source Code Master is useful to find measures by codes billed by individuals or groups. It is a listing of all denominator and numerator coding for each "claims and registry measure" which can be sorted by CPT (C4), CPT II (claims reporting), ICD-10 (I10) and HCPCS. Access the 2016 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Single Source Code Master.
Please contact HTS on how to use this tool or if you have other PQRS questions.
HIPAA: Is your facility prepared to answer your patients' questions about their rights to see and obtain their health information?
Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently released short, educational HIPAA access videos in English and Spanish for individuals and health care providers. This is a series of three 3-5 minute educational videos designed to help your patients better understand their rights to see and get their health information, and to have that information sent to others of their choosing (including family members, caregivers, or a mobile device application).
The video topics include Individual's Rights under HIPAA to access their health information, HIPAA Access Associated Fees and Timing and HIPAA Access and Third Parties.
Email Susan Clarke, ISC2 Certified Health Care Information Security and Privacy Practitioner with Health Technology Services, or call 307.248.8179 if you need help with your Privacy and Security needs.
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