EHR Meaningful Use: Ensure Eligibility for Financial Incentives
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by Medical Records Briefing
presented on February 10, 2010
You don't need to rehash the hundreds of pages of "meaningful use" criteria, but you need to understand how it will impact your organization. This 90-minute audio covers the basics and beyond - giving you practical ideas and concrete steps to take now to prepare for earning incentive dollars for compiling and using a certifiable EHR. Our speakers help ensure you demonstrate meaningful use and enhance your EHR program.
NOTE: Participants should be familiar with ARRA-HITECH, the concept of the incentives, and have a general understanding of EHR technology.LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this audio conference, you will be able to:
- Determine key elements in the definition and process for reporting meaningful use of EHRs
- Deploy innovative strategies for rapid adoption of EHR technology
- Prepare to monitor quality measurement and reporting results to ensure desired outcomes
- Develop a roadmap toward adopting the right technology to ensure incentives as a meaningful user
- Assess your current technology
AGENDA
- Steps to get ready
- Structure to coordinate all aspects of meaningful use
- Goals and expectations for achieving meaningful use incentives
- Benefits and risks of participating or not participating
- Organizational readiness, vendor offerings, and meaningful use milestones
- Innovative strategies for rapid adoption of EHR technology
- Quality measure monitoring and reporting
- Determining readiness of current technology and user adoption
- Application and use-adoption inventories
- Facility implementation strategies
- Available resources to support acquisition of EHR technology
- Case study: Maryvale
MATERIALS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and:- Tool to help assess meaningful use readiness for existing HIT applications
- Roadmap to become a meaningful user of EHRs
- Web site links, e.g., recognized certification bodies (RCB)
These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Margret Amatayakul, MBA, RHIA, CHPS, CPHIT, CPEHR, FHIMSS, is president of Margret\A Consulting, LLC, and co-founder and member of the board of examiners of Health IT Certification, LLC. She provides consulting services to hospitals, clinics, payers, health information exchange organizations, and federal advisory committees to help achieve clinical transformation through adoption of health information technology (HIT). She is the author of The No-Hassle Guide to EHR Implementation, The No-Hassle Guide to EHR Policies, and Guide to HIPAA Auditing from HCPro.
Frank Ruelas, MBA, is director of compliance and risk management and is the privacy officer for Maryvale Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also the principal of www.hipaabootcamp.com where he works with covered entities of all sizes and configurations in promoting their compliance with HIPAA and more recently the newly established requirements brought about by the HITECH Act. He has extensive experience in the compliance arena with an emphasis on compliance related to privacy and security at both the State and Federal levels.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Privacy officers, HIM and medical records directors and managers, compliance officers, IT staff, patient financial services staff, quality staff.
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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