Home Forums Discussions General Discussion Calling Dr. Steven from Beautiful state.

Thank you for responding.

From another thread:
I have just finished meeting the MU requirements and all in all am doing fine with Version 6.

Wondering how you met the patient summary scores. I am getting zero though I have been handing over these to pts.

Besides this: the government registries is my unmeetable goal at this time for Michigan. We do not have link yet for MCIR/disease reporting.

What were your other tough ones?

Thanks again for enlightening us.

Regards

What would happen if all of us just said "we are not going to do this"?

Patient Summary Scores - I run the summary of visit (with CCD) which gave me positive numbers. It appears that AC's interpretation says that you have to give CCD's and I know that there is a differing of opinion. I think it is a waste of paper, but am playing the game.

Government registry - I assume you mean Menu 10 - if you go to the bottom of the explanation you will see that you can go into admin options and choose a Meaningful Use Registry which is a test one that they have made available to use while state ones are being developed. Enable that and then send - this will mark you as completing.

I also have a beta state registry for Immunizations in Washington that they are testing.

Hope this helps.

Then only Steven would get the money.

Steven,
I have looked at the test registry, and could not figure how to do it for either immunizations or syndromic surveillance. Which one did you use, and can you walk us through it?

1) Admin options - open registries and activate MU registry.
2) File - Import/Export - Export to state registry.
Pick sample pt. and export CCD.

Correction - this is for vaccine registry (same steps if have state or MU vaccine registry)

For MU state lab registry - under Pt summary tab - File, Export, Export to state registry.

Sorry got in a hurry.

Thank you very much Steven. Worked like a charm.

The best $2.00 I think I ever spent for activing those 2 interfaces.

Thanks, Steven.

I have a question on Core 10. I get that we only need to attest that we reported, and can get data from AC in various ways. Do we actually report to CMS on these measures though? How do we do that - never did that before. A quick google on https://www.cms.gov/QualityMeasures/ turned up that "CMS is currently testing the submission of quality measures data from Electronic Health Records". It's not clear on AC MU Wizard how the data is gathered or reported.

Please clarify. NYS has a vaccine registry. I dont believe AC has not yet developed programming / interface to send info to NYS. SO does that mean we cannot apply for MU $$ if we are using AC in NYS? I thought that was a requirement for MU.

I realize it takes a lot of effort to right programming for each states vaccine registry. Have been waiting for interface from AC to NYS for several years now.

Mike
Uh NYS

I think that you should be able to still do the meaningful use test. The information for the NYS registry is somewhere on the Health Commerce System....you must go to the portal of the Health Commerce System https://commerce.health.state.ny.us/ and log in under your User ID.

I am not sure if this is an adult registry or not. I am going to try it tomorrow. A consultant provided to me by a grant has told me that there are no public health agencies in the state receiving syndromic surveilance from EP's so we pass on an exclusion.

Just do the syndromic surveillance and vaccine registry test ones that AC supplies and claim both - It works fine and will count for you.

I spent the better part of yesterday figuring out where to find our vaccine registry site. The test within AC requires that it be sent somewhere and finding that somewhere is not very easy. NYS says that it is only receiving syndromic surveillance from hospitals not EP "at this time".

Anything further on ability to send vaccine info to NYS registry?
In the developementtttttttttttttttttttt pipelineeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

Some years ago, a skilled aircraft mechanic friend sought approval from the FAA to do a fairly simple modification to his Super Cub airplane. He was told "sure, no problem. Send us a couple of sketches, we will do a couple of phone calls, and we'll get it done." So he did the work, and the requirements kept growing and growing, and ended up requiring several months, over 40 full sized mechanical drawings and 40 hrs on the phone.

So, now when we hear of a project that has all the earmarks of infinite "mission creep" we just say "sure, a couple of drawings, a few phone calls.." and have a good laugh. Thought maybe you all might find that phrase handy.

drgrauman,

That's software development. I cannot tell you the number of times a client has asked for a "simple report" or a "simple change" to our software and my boss would just say "YES!" without a second thought.

Weeks later, of course, my boss is then stomping around mad because that simple request turned into 800 lines of code and he, of course, had already said we would do it for free.

JamesNT

(For those who recall the Tom Hanks film "The Money Pit")
When asked how long a code change will take for the physician documentation program I wrote/support for our hospital medical staff (it "feeds" the text to hospital EMR),
I answer "Two weeks!"

For thoses who recall the Tom Hanks movie "The Money Pit"
When asked by the CIO at our hospital how long it will take to make a coding change in the physician documentation utility I created (not an EMR but medics staff use it to create the text that goes to the EMR), I reply "two weeks"

As any of us who have actually programmed for a living will say, "There is no such thing as 'JUST software.' "

And now I find myself telling patients "There is no such thing a "Just" a prescription.