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IL-HITREC CASE STUDY:
New Age Services Corporation |
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New Age Services Corporation reduces the risk of information leaks and improving staff utilization through streamlined patient referrals using ILHIE Direct. Charles Sellers, Director of Grants and Quality Improvement is interviewed for this IL-HITREC Case Study. New Age Services Corporation (NASC) was established in May 1984 and received its licensing and first funding from the State of Illinois on Dec. 1, 1984. Then known as the Substance Abuse and Alcoholism Treatment Center (SAATC), the agency was located in Chicago's old Maxwell Street area. Since then, NASC has provided adult outpatient substance use recovery services. NASC moved to the North Lawndale community in February 1998. Read the complete article. |
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Changes to Stage 1 Meaningful Use
Measures Begin this Year |
The Stage 2 rule for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs included changes to the Stage 1 meaningful use objectives, measures, and exclusions for eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs). Some of these Stage 1 changes took effect on Oct. 1, 2012, for eligible hospitals and CAHs, or Jan. 1, 2013, for EPs. Several are optional, but others are required.
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CMS Adds New and Updated EHR Incentive
Programs FAQs to the CMS FAQ |
To keep you updated with information on the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, CMS has recently added two new and four updated FAQs to the website. Read answers to things like: How should an eligible professional (EP), eligible hospital, or critical access hospital (CAH) that sees patients in multiple practice locations attest when locations choose to implement different menu objectives and/or different clinical quality measures? Read the complete article. |
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News on HealthIT.gov |
ONC's Chief Scientist, Dr. Doug Fridsma, outlines in a newly published blog post how standardization of sharable data will eventually lead to new and important uses of this information and technology. Among the possible new uses of EHRs are: patient safety, clinical research, disease "surveillance," referrals for behavioral modification programs like smoking cessation and even pre-authorization of certain big-ticket medical devices. This is just the latest in Dr. Fridsma's ongoing conversation with the health IT community - a series of blogs designed to explain the wide range of ONC's work supporting interoperable health information exchange. For more news featured on HealthIT.gov, click here |
