Centricity Healthcare
Usergroup
Webinar
October 17, 2016
Debra McGrath, MSN, FNP
Director HIT, Health Federation of Philadephia
Health Federation of Philadelphia – Health
Center Controlled Network
• HFP is a public health nonprofit in SE PA that
serves as a regional network of community
health centers
• The HCCN is a HRSA funded project to support
16 participating health centers on HIT
optimization and use of data for quality
improvement.
• EHR User Groups are open to any health
center in PA:
• NextGen – 10/24
• EHS – TBD
• eCW - TBD
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Agenda
• Meaningful Use Attestation
• UDS
• What’s new from CHUG
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Meaningful Use - Overview
• You will be using the 2014 certified
version for attestation. GE will be
releasing the 2015 certified version in
mid 2017
• Many of the alternate exclusions
available in 2015 are not applicable in
2016
• The exclusion for Public Health
Reporting remains in place. Let us
know if you have specific questions and
we will do our best to help.
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Meaningful Use – Reporting Period
• The EHR reporting period for all providers is
based on the calendar year.
• In 2016, the EHR reporting period for all
returning participants is a full calendar year
(January 1 to December 31, 2016).
• For first‐time participants in 2016, the EHR
reporting period is a minimum of a
continuous 90‐ day period between January
1 and December 31, 2016
• We are watching for the final decision on a
proposed rule that will allow ALL providers
regardless of stage of reporting to use a 90
day reporting period. The final decision is
due by November 1.
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Meaningful Use – Challenges for
Centricity Users
Objective 2: Implement five clinical decision
support interventions related to four or more
clinical quality measures at a relevant point in
patient care for the entire EHR reporting period.
In Centricity,
this means implementing protocols.
You will need to send screen shots
of 5 protocols when you attest.
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Meaningful Use – Challenges for
Centricity Users
Objective 5: Health Information Exchange at
transitions in care (TOC)
In Centricity you have two options:
1. Surescripts (formerly known as Kryptiq) and the Secure
Messaging functionality’
2. Qvera Transitions in Care (TOC) module
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Meaningful Use – Challenges for
Centricity Users
Objective 6: Patient-specific education
For Centricity users this requires implementing Truven patient
education materials which are embedded in the product.
Fortunately the threshold is low (10%) to meet the measure for this
objective.
The workflow requires the provider or team member to select a
Truven patient education material from the Summary View of the
chart.
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Meaningful Use – Challenges for
Centricity Users
Objective 8: Patient Electronic Access; View,
Download, Transmit (VDT)
1. This functional requirement is achieved through the patient
portal and it must be configured to allow for specific
functionality.
2. You must have 50% of each EP’s patients enrolled in the portal
3. You must ensure that you are publishing all information
available at the time the information is sent to portal within 4
business days of a visit. However, the provider may withhold
any information from online disclosure if he or she believes that
providing such information may result in significant harm.
4. One patient for each provider must either view, download or
transmit information from the patient portal.
For Centricity users, there are many portal options including
Intellichart, MedFusion, Enli (formerly Kryptiq).
If you have the option of automatically registering a patient in your
portal, this is the most effective and efficient way to reach the
measures for this objective.
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Meaningful Use – Challenges for
Centricity Users
Using Centricity Quality Reporting
We have heard concerns from Centricity
users that the data they are finding in CQR
does not appear to be correct.
We recommend you log a support ticket
with GE as you may need to update
mapping from your system to CQR.
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Unified Data Set (UDS) Reporting –
Challenges for Centricity Users
Immunizations: problems with the
immunization form may have an impact on
quality measures.
• Recommendations:
– Be sure to log a support ticket if the
Immunization History is not populating correctly
– Be sure you have updated your immunizations to
CPT codes rather than Observation Terms
– Consider a robust, standardized process to
manage immunization inventory so that you are
getting the correct NDC codes loaded
– Adopt Key Performance Indicators related to
documenting immunizations
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Unified Data Set (UDS) Reporting –
Challenges for Centricity Users
Reporting on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
There are two options for GE Users for collecting this information:
• Virtual Office Ware CHC Module
• Visualutions CHC Module
• Recommendations:
– Collect this information at registration otherwise you will not get
the data you need
– Update the forms you have patients complete to include this
information
– Use a kiosk or tablet enabled application to collect this
information
– Adopt Key Performance Indicators for this measure
– Train staff how to ask and use this information in a sensitive way
– Add SOGI information to the patient banner to inform clinical staff
– Educate your staff: http://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/topic/sogi/
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SOGI Screen Shots VIS
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SOGI Screen Shots VIS
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SOGI Screen Shots VOW
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What’s New at CHUG
• 12.2 release is out starting this week
• The 12.2 release includes some exciting
improvements and over 850 SPR fixes
• Highlights include:
– New prescription refill form that improves workflow
– New functionality to allow for ePrescribing of
controlled substances (EPCS)
– New Family History and Social History forms that
improve data collection and workflow
– Seamless integration for prior authorization for
medications
– Seamless integration with EPIC
– New functionality to connect payer data with your
EHR data
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Questions???
Reach out to:
Debra McGrath
[email protected]
• What topics would you like to cover in
the next call?
• Input into scheduling/format?
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The Health Federation of Philadelphia
is continually developing new programs in response
to both the needs of underserved communities and the
availability of data indicating improved approaches
to health care and behavioral support.
For more information about our initiatives, please visit:
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