2015 Quality Reporting Preparation Program for MU, PQRS & CPCi

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers; We are pleased to announce the launch of our 2015 Quality Reporting Preparation Program. This preparation program, modeled after our highly successful…

Welcome Kate Daly as CHUG Keynote Speaker!

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One of the hallmarks of CHUG is coming together as user's to share ideas and help deliver innovation to each other. With that in mind, our keynote speaker at this year's conference is Kate Daly, Senior Vice President of the Center for Economic…

PQRS & Meaningful Use – Take Action by End of Month

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We have three important message to communicate regarding PQRS and Meaningful Use (MU): 1. PQRS and GPRO - Action due June 30th 2. MU…

ICD-10 Interfaces Webinar

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We just have three announcements this week regarding new links, the interfaces webinar, and tools to assist your transition. Read this communication…

Message from the CHUG Board

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CHUG UPDATE Good Day CHUG Community, The CHUG Board hopes all of you enjoyed CHUG at Centricity Live. If you missed it, we encourage you to join us for our next conference this October in New York City. As I start to settle back into…

Senate passes legislation to repeal SGR!

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Notice from AAOE: April 14, 2015 The United States Senate passed legislation to repeal the flawed Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) today. The legislation will now go to President Barack Obama for his signature, having been passed by…
CMS Extends Deadline for Medicare Eligible Professionals to Attest to Meaningful Use

Stage 3 NPRM Comment Period Now Open: Submit by May 29th

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CMS and ONC invite the public to submit comments on the recently released notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRMs) on Stage 3 requirements and 2015 Edition certification criteria for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Comments must…

Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Summary & Analysis

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Notice from AAOE: HR 1470, the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 creates the Merit-based incentive Payment System (MIPS) which will combine the three quality incentive payment programs (PQRS, VBM, and EHR MU)…

HR 1470 – SGR Repeal & Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015

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Notice from AAOE: On Thursday, March 19, 2015 legislation was introduced in Congress to permanently repeal the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate. AAOE understands that this is an exciting development for our members who are eager to avoid a…

GE State of the Union Address

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: Peter Kinhan, VP & GM of Ambulatory Practice Solutions, invites you to attend our next Customer State of the Union webinar on Monday, March 30,…

Product Issue affecting PQRS & MU: CQMs CMS 68 & CMS 147

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We are writing to advise you of an important issue pertaining to PQRS and Meaningful Use reporting with Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR). We have…
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CMS Extends Deadline for Medicare Eligible Professionals to Attest to Meaningful Use

New EHR Attestation Deadline for Medicare Eligible Professionals: March 20, 2015 Eligible professionals now have until 11:59 pm ET on March 20, 2015, to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program…

Webinar: Thriving in an Age of Consumerism: Focus on Patient Engagement Technology

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A FREE web event sponsored by Medfusion Patient Portal: Date: February 24th          Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST) As patients become more price sensitive and shop around for their healthcare, is your practice prepared to adapt? It's…

Surescripts agrees to spin-off Kryptiq / population health business

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Notice from Kryptiq: Dear Centricity Users, I am writing to share some very exciting news: Surescripts has agreed to spin-off Kryptiq and its population health business - CareManager.The new company will be largely employee-owned. Surescripts…

Get Involved – CMS potential EHR Incentive Changes for 2015

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Notice from the CHUG Board: Dear CHUG Members, Are your providers tired, overworded and struggling to meet meaningful use measures? Have staff starting asking "What is the point"? Yesterday CMS announced a potential EHR Incentive Program…

PQRS WEBINAR: Updating Insurance & Transmitting to CQR

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Notice from GE Healthcare: January 29, 2015 QSS Webinar for PQRS on January 30: Updating and Transmitting to CQR Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We have received a number of questions about the process to update insurance.…

QSS Deadline for PQRS: Step 6 Due February 7th

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Notice from GE Healthcare: January 27, 2015 Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We appreciate your continued attention to necessary preparations for GE Healthcare's Quality Submission Service (QSS) program for PQRS 2014. Please…

Patient Education Transition of Service

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Notice from GE Healthcare: We want to ensure you saw the following notice that was communicated via email and posted to the Service Portal on November 21, 2014. Slides and the recording from the referenced webinar are available in the "View…

CQR Notice: DOWNTIME & New Instructional Resource

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR) and introduce a new instructional resource, Monitoring Meaningful Use Data…
CHUG at Centricity Live 2015

CHUG at Centricity LIVE – Call for Presentations Deadline Friday Jan 30th

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Your Expertise is Needed for CHUG at Centricity LIVE Lead a Breakout Session CHUG at Centricity LIVE needs users like you to lead discussions or present on topics of interest to attendees. This is your opportunity to share your knowledge…

CQR Notice: Tues January 20th – EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE PARTIAL DOWNTIME

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important emergency partial downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR) beginning on Tuesday January 20th, 9:00PM PST. The downtime…
CHUG at Centricity Live 2015

Join us CHUG at Centricity LIVE

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More reasons than ever to attend CHUG at Centricity LIVE With over 40 education sessions, product roadmap presentations, panel discussions and hands-on training, CHUG at Centricity LIVE is a premier learning conference to help YOU optimize…

CQR Notice: DOWNTIME January 10-11

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January 7, 2015 Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR). This downtime is designed to accelerate turnaround times following some calculation…

MU Crystal Reports v1.10.4 now available

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 22, 2014 Dear Centricity Customers: The Meaningful Use Crystal Reports that support Meaningful Use 2013 criteria have been updated to support Patient Level Detail. The package includes all changes…

Additional Meaningful Use Resources

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 22, 2014 Dear Centricity Customers: We have recently released additional resources to help you make your final preparations to attest to Meaningful Use. Service Pack 7 is now generally available.…

CLINICAL VISIT SUMMARY – Product Information Notice

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 19, 2014 Dear Centricity Customer, We would like to make you aware of potentially unexpected behavior when attaching a clinical visit summary to a patient's chart that, if not immediately addressed…

QSS Reminder for PQRS: Step 4 due December 5th

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December 5, 2014 Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We appreciate your interest in GE Healthcare's Quality Submission Service (QSS) program for PQRS. Please take a moment to review the details about important next steps in the…

CQR Notice: DOWNTIME December 5th-8th

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December 3, 2014 Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer, We want to share with you an important downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR). This downtime is necessary to support the continually growing volumes of data and calculation…

New CHUG Board Member!

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December 1, 2014 Dear CHUG Members, The CHUG Board of Directors is pleased to announce Derrick Bovenkamp has been elected to the Board as a member-at-large.  Derrick is a Senior Systems Administrator with Family Care Network in Bellingham,…

Donating Leftover Food to Charitable Causes

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Original article posted on 11.04.14 by Ross Beatty http://www.beattygroup.com/donating-leftover-food-to-charitable-causes-2014-11-04/ One thing that seems to come up over and over again in the conference planning world is what happens to…

African Travel Screening Protocol Kit for CPS & CEMR

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GE Healthcare, in response to urgent Ebola-related recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has published a clinical kit containing editable notifications, alerts, and clinical guidance for use with Centricity Practice Solutions…

MU 2: 2 Fast 2 Soon?

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Those who have upgraded to EMR 9.8 or CPS 12 have done so most likely with the plans to attest for Meaningful Use Stage 2. Here we are, almost to the end of the year and many users are throwing their hands in the air. An article written…

Meaningful Use Admin Set up for Dummies

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If you are on the systems administration side of things, you have been given the daunting task to set up the administration side of CPS12 to get ready for Meaningful Use 2. Unfortunately, the easy button to do this requires many steps. Here…

What Your Portal Should Be Doing For You

  Communicating with your patient in a secure manner is a common answer to this question. According to Healthcare IT a patient portal “is a web-based access point that allows doctors and patients to communicate and share health…