My comment is in regard to the original questions of meaningful use. I am still using V6.09. I have been using this version since about July 15th.
When I am documenting in the patients chart, in the upper right corner, clicking on the meaningful use icon will bring up a screen showing the criteria and what is happening with the current encounter as well as what the meaningful use goals are. It will shows the past 90 days. You can click on entire practice summary just above the columns and it shows you where you are at for all visits over the past 90 days.
In 6 weeks, I have passed the benchmarks for all the basic 15 measures and 4 out of 5 of the selected menu items. In fact, I changed my menu selections because I had met the criteria for menu items that I didn't really understand but the computer recognized that I was doing.
I have not figured out how to make the numerators or denominators work. I have gone into reports section and generated numerators and denominators there by creating individual reports. Eg. total number of patients with 250 in icd code. total number of patients with 250 and hgac in tracked data within 12 months etc.
When we had a consultant supplied to us by a grant that created our regional health extension (REC)center, he said that we did not need to provide electronic reports to cms for mu at this time but simply the attestation that we could provide the reports if requested even if they were not supplied electonically. We need to have numerators and denominators even if they were generated by paper reports in case of audits down the road.
I understand from this board that the numerator and denominator in the meaningful use section is ????buggy??. Has anyone been able to get the numerator or denominator area to work? I be interested in hearing about that.
In past versions, I have been unable to use the decision support very effectively. Creating rules, etc. I have instead just been using tracked data. I have about 15 items that I'm tracking and I can generate reports and use them in a "meaningful" way to meet benchmarks. I got my P4P money this way through medicare. I'm ready if they audit me. I wonder if it's worse than an IRS audit??
nancy
