CMS offers incentives for eligible providers or organizations that meet Meaningful Use objectives, with the broader intent of engaging patients and improving clinical outcomes through use of technology. Navigating Cancer’s Patient Link offers a win-win solution. It...
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Value-Based Payment Models and Why Your EMR May Fall Short
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are the software programs that underlie internal clinic workflow at most health care organizations. They’ve been around for a while but implementation nearly doubled nationwide from 2007 to 2012, thanks to the federal resources poured...
Meaningful Use: What to Expect
Last month, acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt kicked up a media speculation storm when he said,“We are now in the process of ending Meaningful Use and moving to a new regime culminating with the MACRA implementation. The Meaningful Use program as it has existed...
Meaningful Use, One Step Closer to Finalization
The rules for Stage 3 meaningful use, and the potential modifications to Stage 2, moved one step closer to finalization last week when The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) handed them off to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on September 3rd....
Navigating Cancer’s Official Comments on Stage 3 Meaningful Use Proposed Rule
To: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Date: May 28, 2015 Re.: Comments on the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule: Electronic Health Record Incentive Program Stage 3. Navigating Cancer, Inc. appreciates this opportunity to...
New Meaningful Use Stage 3 Proposed Rule Focuses on Advanced Use of Electronic Health Record Systems
On Friday, March 30, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced their proposed rule for Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use (MU) Incentive Program. The proposal was published in the Federal Register and is available online. CMS is accepting...
New CMS-Published Rule on Meaningful Use Provides Flexibility for Healthcare Professionals: Implications for 2014 and Beyond
Good news! Healthcare professionals have more flexibility in achieving Meaningful Use based on the rule recently published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). With the race to adopt meaningful use technology, both vendors and providers have been...
New Research on Patient Portals: Is Your EMR the Safest Choice?
There is a lot of news lately on the adoption of patient portals. And for good reason, the deadline for adopting and using a patient portal to meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements is 2014, which is quickly approaching. Patient portal adoption and active use is...
Final Stage 2 Meaningful Use rules
The Stage 2 Meaningful Use rules require more care coordination, better clinical decision support, more information exchange, and more patient engagement. These increased measures make it clear that EHRs alone will not be enough to provide patients and their healthcare team with an easy-to-use means of communication.
HITECH Act Meaningful Use Incentives timeline
The HITECH Act Meaningful Use incentives peak in 2012. It's not too late to qualify, but time is running out to achieve the maximum incentive payment as practices must begin the 90-day attestation period by October 1. The chart below shows the dollar amount practices...
How Oncologists Can Navigate the Meaningful Use Waters
Navigating the waters of Meaningful Use, Patient Centered Medical Home, Accountable Care Organizations and the ACoS Commission on Cancer standards is a full time task for community oncology clinics to manage. To ensure you make the best decision that will support current and future practice needs, you should take a broader, long-term view as you compare technology solutions.
Giving Patients Access to their Health Information
The first step in patient engagement is providing them with access to their health information. We review the new workflow to release patient information from your EHR with our Patient Engagement Portal.
Stage 2 Meaningful Use Criteria
How the Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria differs from Stage 1; more patient engagement and increased access to personal health information.
ACCC Oncology Issues Guest Article
How patient portals will play a central role in solving the Meaningful Use objectives of providing patient centered care. A guest article by Navigating Cancer’s CEO, Gena Cook, in the Jan/Feb 2012 edition of Oncology Issues.
Using Health IT to Achieve Patient Centered Care
Navigating Cancer CEO Gena Cook provides insights into the trends and issues that will impact patient centered care in community oncology practices this year, and what part health IT will play.
How to Attest for the Meaningful Use Incentives
Eight steps to get ready for the Meaningful Use attestation process, and a timeframe for how long each step could take.
Patient Portal Integration with Unlimited Systems
Navigating Cancer and Unlimited Systems Partner to Provide Cancer Clinics with IT Interoperability to Attain HITECH Act Incentives
Patient Portal: the Gateway to Patient Centered Care and Meaningful Use
To give patients electronic access to their health information, oncology clinics will need to implement a patient portal that integrates with their EMR. More than just a log in page, a patient portal can be an opportunity to engage patients in their care while making your practice more efficient and cost effective.
Gena Cook’s ACCC presentation recap
Recap of Gena Cook’s Meaningful Use presentation at the ACCC annual meeting in April 2011 by Value-Based Cancer Care Magazine.
Meaningful Use Rules: The Basics
Meaningful Use Rules: The Basics Over the past couple of months, I’ve been invited to speak about HITECH and Meaningful Use at a number of oncology state society meetings (Texas/Colorado/Oklahoma/New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama) and at the ACCC annual...
Gena Cook to speak at ACCC meeting
Navigating Cancer’s CEO, Gena Cook, will be speaking at the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) 37th annual meeting in Washington D.C. March 24-26, 2011.
Meaningful Use Incentives for Cancer Clinics
You may have heard about the “meaningful use” regulation that was approved by Congress on July 13th as part of the HITECH act, laying out the specific requirements for hospitals and clinics that implement electronic health records to receive incentivized payments. The...
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