Contact:
Jonathan M. Fuchs, FACHE Chief Operating Officer
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care, Inc.
501-212-8636
HITArkansas 501-212-8616
Introduction and Overview
(National)
REC – EHR Summit San Francisco
Core team composition
• Project Director – Debbi Karwoski • Program Manager – Linda Hardage • Program Liaison/Marketing – Eldrina Easterly • Data Manager – Nathan Ray • Program Coordinator – Brittany Shachmut • Implementation Specialist – Lacey Howard • Implementation Specialist – Marquette Walker • Implementation Specialist – Valerie Moring • Implementation Specialist – Kortni Dixon • Implementation Specialist – Troy KallImplementation team
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Field staff
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Quality Improvement :
7
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Medicaid Managed Care:
8
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Implementation Specialists:
5 (+ 1)
Our grant requirements
• By December 2011
– 1,280 priority primary care physicians become certified meaningful users
– 35 Critical Access Hospitals and 137 associated physicians
• By December 2013
– Additional 1,280 certified users
• Maintain HITArkansas organizational sustainability beyond year 4
Our role
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Provide technical assistance, guidance and
training to providers
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Support and accelerate the adoption and use of
electronic health records
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Implement and institute reporting to improve
healthcare outcomes
Services offered
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Practice readiness assessment
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Workflow analysis and redesign
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Project management & vendor oversight
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Post-implementation review
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Care management guidance
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Evaluation of EHR data reporting capabilities
Provider benefits
• On-site technical assistance with EHR adoption
• Education on selection, implementation and use of an EHR system
• Access to group purchasing of EHR systems and technical support
• End-to-end project management support of EHR implementation
• Access to current information regarding meaningful use and best practices from around the country through the ONC Communities of Practice
• Support for practice and workflow redesign to achieve meaningful use of EHR system
• Ongoing provider communication
– Program updates: State/National information
– Continuous updates on www.hitarkansas.com
– Exclusive monthly newsletter
– Ongoing seminars and meetings
– Onsite visits and telephone support
– Ongoing staff education and training
– Continuing updates on Meaningful Use
• HITArkansas is your “go-to” for everything EHR and meaningful use
How it works. . .
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Pre-application on www.HITArkansas.com
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Initial visit scheduled – provider service
agreement
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Practice assessment visit
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EHR implementation or upgrade
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Ongoing touch-base (visits and/or calls)
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Post-EHR implementation evaluation
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Meaningful Use readiness assessment
Provider responsibilities
• Identify EHR project team
– Team leader and physician champion
• Identify “agreed upon” project milestones
– Includes “go-live and “meaningful use”
• Purchase and implement approved EHR system
• Communicate to HITArkansas
– Evaluation process
– Barriers and any problem areas of implementation
Provider costs
• HITArkansas kept fees low
– With providers top-of-mind
• First payment of $500 will be invoiced upon
receipt of the signed provider service agreement
• Second payment of $500 will be invoiced upon completion of meaningful use attestation and validation
Beyond year 2
For a nominal fee, HITArkansas will offer ongoing support in the following areas:
• Ongoing phone assistance: To answer unique questions, such as compliance with meaningful use
criteria and how this affects annual cost reimbursement entitled to EHR-based providers.
• Web-based access: Access to a library of training aids, tools and best practices techniques. Also, allow for
special research requests for information that would be needed by all EHR-based providers. This will also
include tips on who to get full utilization from the EMR to enhance the quality of patient care and inspire a more robust revenue cycle.
• Consulting services access: Access to an AFMC EHR
professional for up to three hours to work on opportunities unique to the EHR environment.
• Monthly newsletter: This will be a sharing of information from
the national HIT REC Consortium, ongoing EHR installation work, software vendor developments, technological changes, and developments in interoperability. Other coverage would include changes in Medicare and Medicaid policy, alerts and other issues that impact the effectiveness of EHR applications.
• Discount pricing for ad hoc services: AFMC is positioned to
offer data analysis services to pinpoint practice profiling and benchmarking with other EHR users. These services will be supplied at the lowest possible cost to the provider.
Where we are now
• More than 757 preliminary pre-applications
• 268 distinctive clinical locations represented
• EHR vendor selection currently underway
• 1,280 priority primary care providers (PPCP) to meaningful use by December 2011
Contact information
• Web: www.hitarkansas.com
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Phone: 501-212-8616
• Fax: 501-212-8689
• Jonathan Fuchs [email protected]
• Debbi Karwoski [email protected]
