During HIMSS10, NextGen Healthcare’s educational agenda will focus on:
— Meaningful Use — Time is ticking down to the first ARRA incentive payouts for meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs). It’s up to providers to make sure they qualify, but NextGen Healthcare will help by addressing several major aspects of meaningful use at their booth, No. 7433. Presentations will run throughout HIMSS10 and include: Acute/Inpatient Care; Timelines; Physician Requirements; Hospital Requirements; Grants & Funding; EHR Incentives; Health Information Exchange; Revenue Cycle Impacts and Health Quality Measures.
Attendees can also make meaningful use of their time at HIMSS by helping raise money for charity. For visiting the NextGen Healthcare booth and completing a learning activity, such as a meaningful use presentation or a product demo, NextGen Healthcare will donate funds each day to a charity voted on during the presentations.
— Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) — Redesigning healthcare delivery calls for a shift to care based on evidence, driven by data, focused on wellness, and centered on patient needs, according to NextGen Healthcare’s Chief Medical Officer, Sarah T. Corley, M.D., FACP, and Vice President of Healthcare Services and Government Relations, Charles W. Jarvis, FACHE. They enlighten readers about the patient-centered medical home model in a chapter contributed to Paper Kills 2.0: How Health IT Can Save Your Life and Your Money. This new book from the Center for Health Transformation will be launched at HIMSS10 with a foreword by Newt Gingrich and Tom Daschle. Complimentary copies will be given out during NextGen Healthcare’s booth presentations.
On Sunday, February 28, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., Jarvis and Cherie Holmes-Henry, Director of NextGen Healthcare’s Grants Resource Center, will present on technologies vital to creating a PCMH at Microsoft Health Users Group Exchange, an event preceding HIMSS10.
— Interoperability — As one of the core meaningful use criteria, it is now mandatory that providers identify ways to share their clinical data with other certified EHR systems. During HIMSS10, NextGen Healthcare client Kittitas Valley Community Health Information Network will present “Growing Community Health Info Network Links Rural Patients with Care across the Continuum,” scheduled for Wednesday, March 3, at 9:45 a.m. in Georgia ballroom 1.
— Pay-for-Performance — Client Graybill Medical Group will address this important trend in payer incentives and reimbursements in “Utilizing an EHR to Optimize Pay-for-Performance Participation: A Primary Care Medical Group’s Experience,” on Wednesday, March 3, at 2:15 p.m. in room C202. Graybill configured its EHR to improve quality and support successful participation in P4P initiatives, and has earned nearly $800,000 in bonus reimbursements.
“HIMSS10 offers the healthcare industry the opportunity to get up-to-speed on the latest technology trends, issues and solutions,” says Scott Decker, President of NextGen Healthcare. “As providers move toward meaningful use and overall improvements in our care system, they will look to companies like us for guidance on how to use technology most beneficially. We are fortunate to have so many avenues to share our expertise, client success stories and solution offerings with this audience.”
During all exhibit hours, NextGen Healthcare will also provide in-booth demonstrations of its expanded line of clinical and financial solutions for the entire care continuum, including ambulatory, inpatient, HIE, patient portal, mobile and revenue cycle management solutions, as well as solutions from Quality Systems and Siemens Healthcare. HIMSS10 will be held March 1-4, 2010 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.