CHUG at Centricity Live 2015

Join us – CHUG at Centricity LIVE

Join us for CHUG at Centricity LIVE April 29th - May 2, 2015 at Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida! REGISTER NOW! LEARN and CONNECT with OTHERS! Your opportunity to learn and connect with other Centricity Users like…
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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…

Message from CHUG Board

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February 11, 2015 Mr. Jan De Witte President and CEO Healthcare IT and Performance Solution GE Healthcare 540 W Northwest Highway Barrington, IL 60010-3076 Dear Mr. De Witte, This coming April the CHUG Board will be traveling to…

Message from the CHUG Board

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Good Day CHUG Community, This past weekend the CHUG Board of Directors met with members of the GE Healthcare IT Senior Leadership team at our quarterly board meeting. We worked collectively and collaboratively with the GE team to advocate…

Change to PQRS Insurance Filter

Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We would like to make you aware of an issue that some customers have experienced with the filters for PQRS measure selection. We have defined the root cause and deployed…

Upcoming Change to PQRS Insurance Filter

Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We want to share important information about the PQRS program. Within the last few days, GE Healthcare learned that some customers experienced issues with the insurance…

PQRS UPDATE: Simplified workflow for 2014

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Customers who have not yet finished applying SOP codes may now use the following workflow. Part 1: Please review the following required and optional steps (a) Assign initial SOP codes: 1. Required:  Apply…

BREAKING NEWS: CMS relaxes PQRS 2014 requirement to apply all SOP codes

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Quality Submission Service Participant: We have some important news about the PQRS 2014 SOP code program requirements that we believe will provide significant relief for customers who are still in the process…

PQRS Webinar – Reschedule Date

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Notice from GE Healthcare: Dear Valued Quality Submission Services Customer, We are writing to apologize for the issues with yesterdays PQRS Insurance Webinar. We know your time is valuable and are committed to equipping you with the information…

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…

Live Webinar: 6 Steps to Denial Management in CPS

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CHUG Encore Presentation Webinar - 6 Steps to Denial Management in CPS Date/Time: January 29, 2015, 2:00PM - 3:00PM EST Speaker: Angela Hunsberger, Senior Healthcare Consultant, Hayes Management Consulting. Join us for an encore presentation!…

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…

Webinar Etiquette

How many webinars, on-line meetings, or calls have you been on in the past month? We have complied a list of the Top 4 things Not To Do: 1. Show up late and interrupt the conversation to let those know you have arrived. 2. Forget you…

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…

Schedule Right the FIRST Time

We use a Triage Scheduling form in our EMR to help guide staff into doing the right thing when scheduling. Scheduling staff are asked to follow so many different scheduling preferences it can be overwhelming trying to remember them all.…

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…

Is there Light at the end of this Healthcare Tunnel?

"Stress is not what happens to us. It's our response to what happens.  An response is something we can choose at any moment." www.livelifehappy.com Does anyone else feel like healthcare is consuming most of your life these days? I am reading…

Join us for CHUG at Centricity LIVE! – Call for Presentations

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CHUG at Centricity LIVE April 29 - May 2, 2015 Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida Your Expertise is NEEDED for CHUG at Centricity LIVE - Lead a Breakout Session...CHUG needs users like you to lead discussions or present on…

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,…

11 Reasons to say “Yes” to a Scribe

How much is your time worth as a provider? Or a better question, what is YOUR hourly rate? With the increase in government regulations and the need for timely, accurate documentation, scribes are a great option. 1. Help Me, Help YOU Making…

Optimizing Your Centricity Webinar Series from GE Healthcare

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Optimizing Your Centricity Solution webinar series is to begin the week of December 1st. "Your Centricity Education team is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a new educational series, Optimizing Your Centricity Solution, geared…

Piggyback a Patient Visit and Improve Healthcare Processes

A terrific way to see how your practice is running on a regular day is to “piggyback ride on a patient visit”. Once you gain the patient’s permission to follow them through their appointment, be sure to observe the people, process,…

Free Webinar: CMS Meaningful Use Q&A

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Centricity Healthcare User Group strives to provide you with the most up to date information.  There are times that vendors will have free webinars available.  Because these webinars could be useful to your practice, we wanted the information…

GE Healthcare Customer State of the Union Address

A message from GE Healthcare: Customer State of the Union Address Dear Centricity™ Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: Jon Zimmerman, VP & GM of Clinical Business Solutions, and Peter Kinhan, VP & GM of Ambulatory…

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…

Upcoming Southeast Centricity User Conference

The annual Southeast Centricity User Conference, sponsored by HealthSystems is coming soon for Centricity Practice Solution users. "Designed for novice and experienced clinicians, administrators, and front and back office staff, this education-packed…

Increase Productivity with Letters

Insurance Companies have never made claims processing a simple task and with ICD10 this is likely to get worse and not better. Now is the perfect time to reevaluate your accounts receivable department, analyze their workflow, and increase…

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…

New Website!

October 16, 2014 Dear CHUG Members, We have created a fresh new look and feel for CHUG.  We started by redesigning our logo to have a cleaner and more modern appearance.  From there we built a fully responsive website that is modern…

Schedule & Manage Surgeries with your EMR

Have you considered using your EMR to schedule and manage your surgeries? Create an encounter form to help your provider order surgery. Use required fields to make sure the provider cannot advance without supplying the minimally essential…

CHUG at Centricity Live

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October 14, 2014 Dear CHUG Members: Based on your feedback and working diligently with GE staff….the CHUG Board and Jon Zimmerman, VP & GM of Clinical Business Solutions are pleased to announce that CHUG will be joining GE’s Centricity…

Successfully Implement a Patient Portal!

When I started to implement a patient portal there were a few things I realized I needed to think about first. 1. Hardware and bandwidth: One of the first things you have to consider is where is it going to run, on your own equipment or…

Top Six Things to Know for the Conference Newbie

If this is your first time attending a Centricity Healthcare User Group national conference, we have put together a list of the top six things you need to know to help you get the most out of your first conference! 1. Who is presenting?…

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…

Quick Tip on Maintaining Productivity During Implementation

Here is a quick tip: To help providers maintain productivity while implementing new EHR workflows, consider having them use the new workflow on the first few patients of the morning or afternoon until they weed out conflicts and gain more…

Enhancement Requests: Let Your Voice Be Heard

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Oh the day when the spell check from the preview screen works, or how about hosted claims checking on the EMR side to help with correct coding?. We all have enhancement requests to the products we use. Our forums page has a section to…

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…

Eight Strategies to Improve Your Training and System Adoption Rates

1. Establish backups for people who are in training to maintain productivity, temporary staff, or a colleague who is cross-trained in the user’s work. It is difficult to focus on training when you know your work is piling up! 2. Utilize…

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…