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About Thomas McMennamin
In addition to being an active contributor to EHRbloggers, Thomas is the Health Policy Manager at Practice Fusion. He received his MBA and MPH from UC Berkeley and has experience in global health, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and HIT. Government and policy space is currently ablaze with activity that will determine how and why health care providers use EHRs. Thomas guides policy to better understand small practice providers and also ensures that Practice Fusion users have what they need to successfully comply with government requirements. As well, he oversees the Practice Fusion Academic Program that provides free access to the EHR and resources to help train the future HIT workforce. Follow Thomas: 
Medicaid Provider EMR Incentive Alert
State Medicaid Providers across the country have an unprecedented opportunity to collect over $21,000 in EHR incentives in the last few weeks of 2011. By adopting Practice Fusion EMR software and its free e-prescribing module by December 31, 2011 an array of medical professionals including medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, dentists and some physician assistants can qualify for significant EMR incentives. If you aren’t a Medicaid provider, you can still let you colleagues know about… read more >
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Improve Your Structured Data Meaningful Use Scores
Providers behind on their Meaningful Use scores still have plenty of time to improve their performance and qualify for up to $18k in EHR Incentives this year. It is quite simple to quickly improve your scores on a number of the workflow criteria. You must do this as soon as possible to qualify for incentives. First, a few practical tips that can quickly improve your Meaningful Use numbers: Sign your chart notes – they only count toward Meaningful Use if… read more >
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Provide Patient Specific Education Resources for Meaningful Use
One of the simplest Meaningful Use menu criteria to achieve is providing patient-specific education resources to more than 10% of patients who visit your office during your reporting period. As you near the end of your reporting period, now is the time to evaluate how you are performing and take actions to ensure that you exceed the 10% requirement. Step 1: Check your progress You can quickly and easily view your progress to date by navigating to the Meaningful Use… read more >
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A Few Practical Meaningful Use Tips
As Practice Fusion users move closer to the second half of their 90-day Meaningful Use periods, I’ve compiled a short list of practical tips to help you get closer to the required thresholds standing between you and your incentive payments. We also host Daily Meaningful Use webinars to answer your specific questions. Click here to join. #1: Sign your chart notes Your chart notes are only counted towards Meaningful Use if you sign them. We find that 9 out of… read more >
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Which Immunization Registries Can Accept Practice Fusion HL7 Files?
Medicare Meaningful Use requires eligible providers to test their capability to generate and transmit a single immunization record created from the certified EHR to a local immunization registry. This is menu criterion 9. Nearly every registry has unique capabilities and Practice Fusion-generated immunization records can only be received by a handful of them. This is true for any EHR currently on the market. We are working with immunization registries to better understand their capabilities to inform which of our providers… read more >
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