Connecting People to Care Volume 2 - August 2008
Connecting People to Care Newsletter
Connecting People to Care provides current information on Northern Sierra Rural Health Network, Health Information Exchange project accomplishments. In starting year two of the project, we have seen a great increase in member involvement in our HIE in program activities. |
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Regional Disease Managment Update The NSRHN HIE team has been working with seven participating clinics to install CDEMS Chronic Disease Electronic Management System. During the month of August, NSRHN will be collecting reports on diabetes clinical measures from eight sites participating in the AQIC project (Accelerating Quality Improvement through Collaboration), and uploading data to the California Primary Care Association online reporting system.
We applaud Eileen Silva from Scott Valley Rural Health Clinic and Joyce Beeman from Surprise Valley Hospital for manually abstracting and entering their DM patient data in CDEMS to improve quality of care.
Next CDEMS User Support Group: August 27, 2008, 11:00-1:00
Take advantage of this national forum to ask questions and network with CDEMS trainers and end users. For information and to register for email alerts contact Linda Kehoe at: lkehoe@nshrn.org.
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CDEMS in the News CDEMS has been selected as the preferred tracking tool for an IT driven, quality improvement project being implemented by the state of Kansas. Read more...
Healthcare IT News |
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e-Prescribing Program Update  We want to congratulate Hill Country Community Clinic, Plumas District Hospital, Mountain Valleys Health Centers, and McCloud Healthcare Clinic who are actively using Allscripts ePrescribe to send electronic prescriptions to their partner pharmacies. The HIE Team is beginning to see increased activity in the number of electronic prescriptions submitted by each provider. Susan Morris, LVN from Mountain Valleys Health Centers says, “[ePrescribe] makes prescribing quick & easy…Dr. Watson is doing well with the program.”
The HIE team recently visited the newly opened Fairchild Medical Clinic and provided training to Terry McClean, LVN and Pediatrician Jack Haling, MD. In the photo at left Terry is receiving instruction from members of the HIE Team, Kent Waldsmith and Linda Kehoe. Dr. Haling and Terry are anxious to begin using ePrescribe for future prescriptions.
If your practice is interested in using ePrescribe to send electronic prescriptions, contact Linda Kehoe: lkehoe@nsrhn.org.
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Incentives for e-Prescribing Physicians who participate in the 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative can receive an additional increase in their 2009 end-of-year bonus for adopting electronic prescribing. Read More…
American Academy of Family Physicians |
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Remote Access to Patient Health Information Mercy Medical Center of Redding and Shasta Regional Medical Center are working with NSRHN to extend a secure web portal of patient information to remote providers who share patients with the hospitals. Mercy is expected to go live with their portal, to be made available at ConnectUp.org, in fall 2008.
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