On January 13, 2010 Federal Register
published proposed rules for the 'meaningful use' of Electronic Health
Records in medical offices and related incentives under the Medicare or
Medicaid programs. Here is our general summary of the key points:
Incentive program is per provider. One must choose to get incentive in
either Medicare or Medicaid Plan.
For more information click here
Meaningful Use
As
you provide service to your patients, you must document on several
forms. These may be Medical/Physical History Questionnaire, Progress
Note, Consult Report, Medication History, Progress Note, etc. You keep
repeating information such as patient name on each and every form. You
file these forms in the patient charts and you pull out these charts
prior to the patient's next visit. You flip through the chart to
familiarize yourself with patient's previous documented history.
IQEHR extends and customizes
InfoCare so that all these documents are available on your computer
through InfoCare. You can shift through previous forms and create new
ones by pointing and picking from an evolving database of your records
that may include hand written notes, diagrams drawn on a computer
screen, dictated files, or faxes and scanned images of any other
documents. We can also design your own familiar forms to come
up on the screen. You can write on screen on these forms with your own
handwriting or type on the blank lines.
Your Super Bill can be
integrated to
come up on the screen so that a provider can mark directly on this
form. No need to enter charges in the back office any more.
All visit related documents can
be created and accessed directly from IQScheduler, including
dictation.
All patient documents can
be accessed by dates or by types of documents.
IQEHR gives you various
alternatives so that you can adopt
those solutions that your staff is ready to implement and use, giving
you the productivity and service quality improvements that you can
actually achieve.
We welcome you to challenge us
in providing you with the most cost effective solution for
computerizing your forms or patient care documents that make sense for
your practice.
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