awards and meaningful use
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AWARDS and Meaningful Use
Alex AttinsonRachel Miller
ConnectedCare Team
– Created by three human service agencies
–Web based EHR used by more than 900 agencies in 25 states
– Behavioral Healthcare functionality:• Demographics• Notes• Plans• Outcomes, reporting, billing
Who We Are
• Behavioral Health vs. Hospitals– Smaller budgets; chronic cash flow
crises–Many clinical workers, few EPs if any– Part-time / shared EPs
• MU Objectives– Alignment with behavioral health– Relevant CQMs
Behavioral Health and MU
Interested
Eligible and Able
Adopt, Implemen
t, Upgrade
• AWARDS is a complete, ambulatory 2014 Edition
• Majority Medicaid– Some mixed
Medicare/Medicaid volume
– Choose Medicaid• AIU• More Money• More flexible
Meaningful Use Clients
• Eligibility– MU not designed for Behavioral Healthcare– Who on staff qualifies?– Can I claim them?– Medicaid/Medicare volume
• Resource allocation– EHR features, vendor support– EP access to technology– MU content expertise
• REC, internal, external consultant
• Cost/Benefit Analysis– Does MU overlap with mission of the agency?– Can we afford it?
Early Challenges
• Implementation team / MU leadership
• Resources: staff and hardware• Staff resistance• Computer skills• Training • Workflow/process changes• Data quality
General Challenges
• Message to agencies:–Meaningful Use is not easy…– Attestation is not easy…• Job well done for getting to attestation
• Meaningful Use ‘14 – Stage 1– Non-reportable objectives: screenshots– Reportable objectives: Objectives Report– Clinical Quality Measures: Quality Measures
Report
The 2014 Edition
• 2011/2014 CHERT Flexibility Rule• Mandatory 90-day 2014 reporting
period• Possible 90-day 2015 reporting
period• Role specific vitals recording• RECs that provide one-on-one
support• Possible incentives for BH
organizations
CMS Relief
• Patients and EPs– Record encounters, associate patients with EPs
• Always be ready for an audit• Know your exclusions– Ex: is blood pressure in the scope of practice?
• Selecting your Menu Set Objectives– Public Health objectives
• View, Download, Transmit– Connected to a HISP/DIRECT
Attesting with AWARDS
• Ex: Consumer meets with psychiatrist• In AWARDS, the touch point is the Psych
Note• Maintain existing functionality• Maximize functionality from that screen– Record encounter– E-Rx (reconciliation, medications, allergy,
formulary)– Update medical record (vitals, problem list,
smoking)– Generate Clinical Summary– VDT: DIRECT or offline generation of electronic
doc
Workflow in BH Agencies
Workflow in BH Agencies
Psych Note Clinical Summary Electronic Document/VDT
Clinical Summary
Clinical Summary
VDT – Electronic Document
Meaningful Use Dashboard
Core• Controlling High Blood Pressure - CMS165v2 (NQF 0018)• Tobacco Use: Screen and Cess. - CMS138v2 (NQF 0028)• Body Mass Index (BMI) Screen - CMS69v2 (NQF 0421)• Documentation of Current Med. - CMS68v3 (NQF 0419)• Use of High-Risk Medications - CMS156v2 (NQF 0022)• Use of Imaging Studies for Low Back Pain - CMS166v3 (NQF
0052)
Behavioral Heath Specialty• Anti-depressant Medication Man. - CMS128v2 (NQF 0105)• Weight Assessment and Counseling - CMS155v2 (NQF 0024)• Major Depressive Disorder - CMS161v2 (NQF 0104)
Clinical Quality Measures
• Codify medical encounters and vocabulary
• RxNorm, SNOMED CT, ICD, CPT, LOINC
• AHRQ Value Sets – eCQM
• QRDA Physicians Quality Reporting System
• Extensible framework for new CQMs
Codified Data
eCQM Value Sets
QRDA Cat I & III
Clinical Quality Measures
Codified Data Entry
AHRQ Value Sets
PQRS Reporting
• Interoperability– Secure messaging– RHIO subscriptions– Health Homes– DSRIP and ACO• CQMs as a part of Care Plan Reporting
• EPCS• Opt-out consent for data exchange
Stage 2 and Beyond
Q & A
Questions?
• www.footholdtechnology.com
• ConnectedCare Team: mu@footholdtechnology.com
• Alex Attinson: alex@footholdtechnology.com
• Rachel Miller – Senior Project Manager: rachel@footholdtechnology.com
Foothold Technology
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