Meaningful Use became one of the most frequently used terms in the healthcare
industry in 2009. On July 13, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
(CMS) announced the final ruling for the EHR Incentive Program based
upon Stage 1 of Meaningful Use. This phase of adoption is focused on
health care professionals using certified EHR technology to improve
health outcomes in the following areas:
- Improve the quality of care, efficiencies and safety in treating
patients
- Reduce health disparities
- Engage patients and families
- Improve care coordination
- Improve population and public health
- Guarantee adequate privacy and security protection of PHI
ProVation Medical software helps you qualify for Meaningful Use payments
by achieving ONC-ATCB modular certification, tightly integrating with
existing hardware and software environments, and continuing to be a
market leader in clinical procedure documentation. Meaningful Use Stage
2 will address clinical documentation, the key focus of ProVation Medical
solutions. Our ProVation® EHR and ProVation® MultiCaregiver products
are modularly certified for Stage 1 Meaningful Use and we are committed
and well prepared to meet the emerging Stage 2 requirements.
ProVation EHR is specifically designed to meet the workflow and perioperative
documentation needs of Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) facilities. We
were certified by The Drummond Group as an Ambulatory EHR module on
February 2, 2012.
ProVation MultiCaregiver software was designed specifically for Gastroenterology
(GI) hospital documentation. ProVation MultiCaregiver enables GI departments
to enhance the quality of patient care, reduce administrative costs
and achieve compliant, standardized documentation. We were certified
by The Drummond Group as an Inpatient EHR module on February 2, 2012.
ProVation MD is a best of breed procedure documentation and coding solution.
The Stage 1 Meaningful Use certification criteria deal with EHR functionality
in hospital and office based settings and do not address physician procedure
documentation.
Clinical procedure documentation is expected
to be addressed in MU Stage 2 and Stage 3. ProVation Medical
has industry leading capabilities in the procedure documentation area,
with deep medical content and an anticipatory interface that captures
comprehensive, discrete information at the point of care. Our plan is
to obtain modular certification on core security components in the first
quarter of 2012, and to meet all other applicable criteria as the requirements
become clear.
What does this mean for hospitals?
Most hospitals will use their enterprise-wide EHR as their vehicle to
attest for Stage 1 Meaningful Use. Data collected in MultiCaregiver
can be sent to the EHR via an interface to help the hospital meet their
Meaningful Use requirements.
What does this mean for providers?
Many providers will only need their office encounters to attest for
Stage 1 Meaningful Use. For providers with more than 50% of their patient
encounters in an ASC, ProVation recommends having access from your ASC
to your certified, office-based Ambulatory EHR. Providers can use their
office EHR to meet the full set of Meaningful Use criteria and ProVation
EHR can act as a complementary, certified module of that EHR.
What does this mean for ASCs?
With a focus on clinical procedure documentation, ProVation Medical
does not offer an office-based Ambulatory EHR as defined by CMS. ProVation
EHR provides a perioperative documentation solution that meets the specific
workflow needs of ASCs. Some ASCs may have providers who wish to use
their ASC encounters in their Meaningful Use calculations. As a certified
EHR module, ProVation EHR can interface with other certified Ambulatory
EHRs to meet the needs of your providers.