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Patient Centered Care in Action
Save the date!
Thursday, March 7, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
This event will feature an interactive morning plenary, lunch, and three learning and action network sessions focused on patient centered care topics to include:
- Improving patient care through Meaningful Use
- Best medication list practices to deliver the best care
- Patient engagement tools and techniques
Click here for more information.
Watch your mailbox for upcoming registration information.
Health Literacy and Diabetes Education - Motivating Patients to Take Action
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. MT
Register NOW
This Diabetes Telehealth Series will define health literacy concepts and their relevance to diabetes care, describe behavioral models that can be used to help motivate individual patients to take action, list practical ideas to integrate health literacy and motivational tools into practice, and identify key health literacy and patient education resources to improve diabetic education practice.Click here for more information.
PQRS 2013: CMS Update
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. MT
This webinar will explain the 2013 changes to Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures. Click herefor more information.
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| Clinical Health Information Exchange (cHIE) Update | |
As of October 2012:
- Number of cHIE consents received (as of September 2012): 156,990
- Total patient IDs with data: 547,146
- Total patients with data and consent to share: 82,067
- Number of clinics connected (as of September 2012): 42
- Number of Beacon clinics connected (as of September 2012): 23
For additional information about the Clinical Health Information Exchange, please visit mychie.org.
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Greetings!
 Welcome to the Clinically Speaking eNewsletter. We hope you find this monthly newsletter a valuable resource as we keep you updated on healthcare specific issues, such as; diabetes care, health information technology, cardiac care, and upcoming events that are relevant to your work.
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You Can Now Attest to Meaningful Use
with Medicaid
"HealthInsight would like to announce the availability of the Meaningful Use Attestation system from Utah Medicaid. If you already received your adopt, implement, or upgrade (AIU) payment from last year, you can now attest to having performed 90 days of Meaningful Use. This payment will allow you to receive $8,500 per eligible clinician. (MD, DO, NP , CNMW, Dentist, and PA in some cases)." Read more . . .
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Utah Physician Office Practices Receive Award
for Quality Care
"HealthInsight has announced 55 physician office practices as recipients of the 2012 HealthInsight Quality Award. These physician office practices were selected for demonstrating high quality care and a commitment to excellence in health care.
The 2012 Physician Office HealthInsight Quality Award is presented to physician practices that are successful with the adoption of health information technology; use care management methods regularly; participate in a data reporting quality initiative; and achieve exemplary performance on nationally recognized quality measures related to diabetes, cancer screening, and immunizations.
The physician office practices selected for awards this year are:" Read more . . .
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Living Well Classes
"Want to decrease your pain, decrease your doctors' visits, & enjoy life more? The Utah Arthritis Program is promoting Living Well with Chronic Conditions, a self-management program. Classes are given 2 1/2 hours, once a week, for 6 weeks, in community settings. People with different chronic health problems all attend together. Classes are conducted by two trained leaders; one or both with a chronic disease themselves. Anyone with an ongoing condition such as asthma, arthritis, chronic joint pain, fibromyalgia, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart failure, COPD or emphysema, depression, chronic pain or others." Read more . . . |
New Stage 2 Meaningful Use Resources Added to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Website
To help eligible professionals participate in Stage 2 of Meaningful Use in the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, CMS has added Stage 2 meaningful use specification sheets for both eligible professionals and for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals.
The new specification sheets can be found here. Each specification sheet has detailed information on each meaningful use measure, such as; definition of terms, attestation requirements, core and menu objective, and additional information.
For more information, please visit the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program website.
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Low Cost Generic Drugs Program Available at Local Retailers
The following retailers offer low cost generic, as well as other, drugs at a low price. Some of the drug prices might even be less than your health insurance co-pays.
What is the Utah Diabetes Practice Recommendations
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OCR Issues First Fine for Non-Major BreachHealthData Management, 1/9/13  "The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights for the first time is financially punishing an organization for a breach of protected health information that affected less than 500 individuals. This is a new policy as OCR has previously limited issuance of hefty fines--and publicity of the fines--against several organizations following a "major" breach that affected 500 or more individuals." Read more. . .
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About Our Work
This information is provided by HealthInsight, a private, non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to improving health and health care. HealthInsight serves as the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, Beacon Community, and Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center in Utah.
HealthInsight leads an initiative to improve diabetes care, cardiac care, population-based care, and improve the use of health information technology. To learn more about us, visit our website at: www.healthinsight.org
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This material was prepared by HealthInsight, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Nevada and Utah, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 10SOW-UT-2013-PO-26 This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the IC3 Beacon Community, under grant #90BC00006 and 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.
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