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EHR = Meaningful Use? (Text Version)

Slide presentation from the AHRQ 2009 conference.

On September 15, 2009, Kelly Templeton made this presentation at the 2009 Annual Conference. Select to access the PowerPoint® presentation (647 KB). 

Slide 1

EHR = Meaningful Use?

Kelly Templeton, Application Specialist
Citizens Memorial Healthcare
Bolivar Missouri

 

Slide 2

Citizens Memorial Healthcare

  • 55 acute care beds
    • Medical/Surgical
    • ICU
    • The BirthPlace
    • Geriatric Wellness
  • Emergency Services
    • Levell III trauma center
    • Ambulance Services
    • Air Ambulance onsite
    • Home Health, Hospice, Home Medical Equipment, Health Transit Services
  • Long Term Care Facilities
  • Residential Care Facility
  • Physician Clinics
  • Outpatient Services
    • Rehab
    • Sleep Lab
    • Cardiac Cath Lab
    • Visiting Specialists
  • Ambulatory Surgery Center
  • Carrie J. Babb Cancer Center

 

Slide 3

Project InfoCare Vision

  • Enable a patient to enter anywhere into the continuum of care and have a personal identity that is maintained across that continuum
  • Physicians and other caregivers will have access to all of that patient's medical information within the healthcare continuum
  • Providers will be able to document efficiently within the software system, which will free them to have more time to spend with patients
  • The investment of time, talent and money will enable CMH to be a technologically advanced healthcare organization poised to grow and offer new services to our patients and the community at large

 

Slide 4

  • EMR that crosses continuum
  • 100% use of CPOE
  • No paper charts

 

Slide 5

  • Himss Davies Award
  • Citizens Memorial Healthcare
  • Himss Analytics Innovative Research Informed Decisions

 

Slide 6

Implemented

  • CPOE
  • E-Prescribing
  • Patient Portal
  • Health Maintenance
  • Quality Measure Research

 

Slide 7

Quality Reporting/AHRQ Grant

  • Standardize and integrate data capture for quality measurement into the normal documentation of care within the ambulatory EMR
  • Implementation of an automated system for data extraction including valid, reliable reports that provide actionable insight for the measurement, analysis and improvement of care

 

Slide 8

Research Results: Coding 4 Diabetic Measures

  • 64 cases qualified for the measures,
    • Coders manually coded 16 qualified & 7 cases unqualified (only 25%)
    • The 16 cases should have had 64 codes; only coded 46 of the 64, (70%) were reported
  • Automated data extraction identified all 64 cases reporting 256 codes (100%)

 

Slide 9

Challenges with Meaningful Use

  • User utilization
  • Submitting code to CMS
  • Maintaining the changing quality measures
  • Difficult to build into documentation
  • Not consistent
Current as of December 2009
Internet Citation: EHR = Meaningful Use? (Text Version). December 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://archive.ahrq.gov/news/events/conference/2009/templeton/index.html

 

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