Upending Meaningful Use: Online webinars available

We've hosted five webinars on the Meaningful Use Modifications for 2015-2017 proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Close to 300 individuals watched the live webinars and gave our MU experts -- Cathy Costello and Scott Mash -- high grades for their thoughtful presentation. Below please find a  PDF of the PowerPoint Presentation, an online recording of the full presentation as well as the five Q & A sessions that followed. 

Presentation on Meaningful Use Proposed Rule Modifications for 2015-2017

Full Recording                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKVh2ANbnPw

Q&A   Session 1                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LUlIzsLdmY

Q&A   Session 2                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uo3l3aPPpI 

Q&A   Session 3                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNlW_MV7jes

Q&A   Session 4                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgc6toeR38I

Q&A   Session 5                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZJTuuflzFc

Please feel free to contact us for our CliniSyncPLUS services that include specialized assistance at a reasonable cost with Meaningful Use requirements, attestations and audits at 614-664-2600. You can also email our MU team: Cathy Costello at ccostello@ohiponline.org, Scott Mash at smash@ohiponline.org, or Cathy Rich at crich@ohiponline.org.
 

It's here: Ohio now has a Community Health Record for physicians.

We're pleased to announce the debut of our Community Health Record -- the latest in technological advances for the CliniSync Health Information Exchange and the state of Ohio.

This new solution allows physicians and other authorized personnel caring for a patient to search for a consenting patient's name and retrieve pertinent medical information from hospitals now participating in CliniSync. Not just a local hospital, not just hospitals in a specific region, but all hospitals connected to the exchange across Ohio, even into bordering Kentucky.

In Portsmouth, the Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) is using the service with its Emergency Department Physicians and is rolling out a patient consent process throughout the hospital to expand the growth of the health record into the population. Seven practices now can retrieve information from SOMC as well as King's Daughters' Medical Center, Adena Health Systems and others now "live" on CliniSync. These practices are gathering patient consent and then can view unique patient records from various hospitals all in one place, by encounter, with filters to look at only the information they need. They include:

Darren Adams, DO -- Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ronald E. Arrick, MD -- Internal Medicine
Harry J. Driedger, MD -- Cardiology
Jitendra K. Patel, MD -- Family Medicine
Shawnee Mental Health Center/Family Health
Southern Ohio Surgical Associates
Charles C. Wong, MD -- Gastroenterology

University Hospitals is working alongside Cardiovascular Associates, the NORD Center (mental and behavioral health) and Premier Health Physicians (multispecialty group) as another wave rolls out in Northeastern Ohio.

In West Central Ohio, Grand Lake Health System (formerly Joint Township District Memorial Hospital) is formulating plans this week to debut the service soon. We also have waves organized for the Central Ohio and Dayton areas in June and July as well as a comprehensive effort to onboard long-term and post-acute care facilities.

To date, we have approximately 6.5 million unique patient health records within the exchange, and as more hospitals go "live," this number will continue to grow over the coming months. We have 100 hospitals live or in production. with 141 total contracted. For more information about the Community Health Record, contact us at 614-664-2600 and we will put you in contact with a CliniSync Physician Liaison in your region.
 

Welcome new practices, specialties and LTPAC facilities

We continue to have practices, long-term care and post-acute care facilities connect to the CliniSync Community every day. We welcome you and thank you for participating in the CliniSync health information exchange.

Welcome:

4M Hospitalist Services in Hudson
Briar Hill Health Campus in North Baltimore
Capital Health Services – 8 facilities, 5 home health agencies in Ohio
Franklin Woods Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Columbus
Genesis Healthcare – 17 LTC facilities in Ohio
Hospice of Tuscarawas County in New Philadelphia
Laurel Healthcare – 16 Ohio LTC facilities; 17 in other states
Lebanon Country Manor in Lebanon
MGM Healthcare – 6 LTC facilities in Ohio
Pickerington Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Pickerington
Schoenbrunn Healthcare in New Philadelphia
Winchester Place Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Canal Winchester
Yossef, Sayed M., MD in Poland

These members now can take advantage of results and reports delivery and other electronic communications at no charge.

We're hiring!

As CliniSync continues to work with more providers in Ohio and expands the services it offers, we're finding that we also need to add personnel to our staff.

If you know of anyone who has an interest in Health Information Technology, please contact us. We're looking for a full-time position in internal IT to assist our staff with their needs. 

For more information, go to www.clinisync.org to the About Us tab on the top right, then click into We're Hiring or you can click here.  

Up-to-date listing of hospitals connected to CliniSync

We want to make sure you know where to go on our website to view the hospitals that are now live, delivering results and reports directly to physicians and other providers in communities.

In addition, a listing of the hospitals will also tell you who is in process, meaning those that are in some level of implementation.  

As these hospitals continue to go live, they not only are delivering results and reports to physicians and CCDAs to long-term care facilities, they are helping to build a master patient index that will become the basis for a Community Health Record. To date, we have more than 6 million unique records.

You can find this listing on the front page of our website at www.clinisync.org where you will see Search for Hospitals on the right hand side in pink. There also is a listing when you click into CliniSync Health Information Exchange on the front page left where it says: Welcome to. There also is a listing on the right hand side under Features or you can click here now to see the list.
 

News from state, federal agencies

There's a new Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information that may be of interest to you. Generated by HHS, the guide explains how HIPAA and health information exchange can coexist. It brings new, practical information about privacy and security to small and medium-sized practices, health IT, other IT professionals and the public at large.

Ohio Medicaid  was selected by CMS to participate in a nationwide ICD-10 Collaborative Testing initiative known as CollabT. CollabT is an on-line tool that offers medical coders an opportunity to practice ICD-10 coding and receive instantaneous feedback on their coding efforts (claims adjudication testing is not part of CollabT in Ohio). Practicing ICD-10 coding not only increases coder confidence by allowing coders to learn from their mistakes, but also helps identify documentation gaps in advance of the transition to ICD-10.  Coding practice is one of the most important determinants in whether an organization will experience a smooth transition to the new ICD-10 coding system.  
 
There is no cost for Ohio Medicaid providers to practice ICD-10 coding in CollabT. If your organization would like to enroll, please review information at: http://medicaid.ohio.gov/Portals/0/Providers/Billing/ICD10/Updates/CollabT-415.pdf