Tag Archive for: Meaningful use

CHUG Fall 2017 Call for Presentations

Nursing Education Credits Now Available!

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The CHUG Board of Directors is pleased to be able to offer, for the first time ever, Nursing Education Credits! It is not too late - REGISTER NOW! At CHUG, you'll be able to earn up to 11.0 contact hours. Activity Number: 1214 Working…
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Hurricane Harvey – Disaster Exceptions/Exemptions for Medicare Certified Providers Affected by Severe Storms & Flooding

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is granting exceptions under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to acute care hospitals, PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities, skilled…
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2018 CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) Proposed Rule Webinar

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2018 CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) Proposed Rule Webinar on August 17th Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: Mark Segal, GE Healthcare Vice President Government and Industry Affairs, and Chad Dodd, General…
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By FRIDAY JUNE, 23RD Responses needed for KLAS!

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Responses are needed for KLAS Interoperability Questionnaire by Friday, June 23rd Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: Meaningful interoperability continues to be a pursuit of providers, vendors, and industry oversight…
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REMINDER: EMPA Webinar on Thursday March 9th

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Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: GE Healthcare would like to remind you of our invitation to attend a webinar about our new solution, Electronic Medication Prior Authorization (EMPA), on Thursday March 9th.…
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EMPA IS HERE! New time-saving solution for CPS/CEMR Customers

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February 15, 2017 Dear Centricity™ Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers: GE Healthcare is excited to announce the general availability of our solution for Electronic Medication Prior Authorization (EMPA). Manual medication…

ACTION ALERT: Ask your legislator to Co-Sponsor HR 3940 – the MU Hardship Relief Act

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Message from AAOE: You may have seen in the last issue of "Coffey Talk" that AAOE and similar organizations are pushing to have a new exception to the meaningful use program added into the omnibus budget legislation currently being negotiated…

Product Information Notice: SP 11 MU Patch

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We would like to direct your attention to the Service Pack 11 Meaningful Use patch, which was released early this week along with the SP 11 DI patch. Please…

Video – MU & Drug Interaction Patches

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We would like to direct your attention to a video produced by GE Healthcare regarding the Meaningful Use and Drug Interaction patches. This video…

Quality Reporting Preparation Program – Webinar Series Continues

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: As you continue your Meaningful Use (MU) and quality program preparations, we hope you found our recent webinars on the final rule and troubleshooting…

Meaningful Use Stage 2 Tips: Core Measure 12 (Preventive Care)

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To meet Core Measure 12, Centricity has the ability to mass generate letters in conjunction with Inquires to transmit targeted reminder letters. It is possible to retrieve a subset of patients with a certain condition who were seen on a given…

Product Info Notice: Service Pack 11, Drug Interaction Overrides

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Message from GE Healthcare: December 4, 2015 Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers: We would like to direct your attention to a scenario which may increase or change drug interaction override popup frequency…

REMINDER: Customer State of the Union Address Sept 16th

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Message from GE Healthcare: Dear Centricity Practice Solution and Centricity EMR Customers, Jon Zimmerman, VP & GM of Clinical Business Solutions and I would like to invite you to attend our next Customer State of the Union webinar on WEDNESDAY,…

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER – 2015 CHUG Conference

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Take a minute to listen to how two of our users describe the CHUG experience. Click HERE to see why you should attend CHUG! FLASH SALE: Save $50 with discount code FLASH50 - HURRY expires FRIDAY September 25th. LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER AND…

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…

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…
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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…