Hi Donna
Thanks for the post...it was imeasurably helpful. In particular the affirmation of our strawmodel timeline. I noted your progression and volume limiters....this is key data I suspect we will use as we build our workplan. One thing still vexes me though....I recevied some help from others who posted to my original MU plea...but am still trying to get my hands wrapped around the following:
Unlike PCP or office (POS 11) practices I am largely a facility (65% POS 21/exempt from CMS MU/EHR demands) 37% POS 31 Hosptial SNF or External SNF specialist. All of the chart detail comes from outside my office, in various forms......so I am working to try and sort out workflow to support transition from paper/faxed supported medical charts to the EHR format. I bill in house using Meedisoft but ti appears linkage between Medisoft and AC is a bit expensive and challenging. Manual demo entry for the patients may be onerous as I see approx 350 new patients annually (very few reats year over)of which 70% are CMS lives.
Based on some extraordinary posting already it appears our MU focus will be on the POS 31 CMS lives for MU but I beleive I should use AC for emr regardless.
I really liked your stepped approach and plan to copy it as we move forward our workplan. I am hoping that out in the user community there are maybe even 1 or 2 specialists that fall into my somewhat unique category of: Hospital and SNF based specialist....whereby 98%+ of all clinical data is created external to the office.
Again my thanks for your comments.....
B/R
Roxanne
