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Your Trusted Advisor for Using Health IT

Partnering with WIREC makes you twice as likely to get your meaningful use incentive check compared to any other solution.*

The Washington & Idaho Regional Extension Center (WIREC) at Qualis Health is your ally for smart EHR implementation and getting to meaningful use. WIREC’s resources have been used by thousands of practitioners to improve the quality of patient care—and successfully capture CMS incentive dollars.

Currently, WIREC has helped Washington and Idaho practitioners bring in more than 32 million in incentive dollars to those states. For more details, see our Results page.undefined

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  1. Packaged Services: Each tried-and-true service comes ready to go and at one fixed, affordable price
  2. Customized Consulting: Our experience has shown that packaged services may not be right for everyone. We created this custom option so that your organization can build a project to meets its unique needs. Whether online, in-person, or on the phone, WIREC consultants are there for you.

Contact us for one hour of FREE consulting by calling (206) 288-2567 or by filling out an interest form.


Benefits:

  • In-depth understanding of meaningful use
  • A team of health IT consultants with clinical and system experience
  • Reach the federal government’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) meaningful use standards
  • Earn incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid
  • Improve practice process and efficiency to elevate your patients’ standard of care
  • Leadership with a direct connection to the latest thinking at CMS and the ONC
  • The right information at the right time


Why burn time trying to learn all of the ins and outs of meaningful use when WIREC is here for you? With WIREC at your side, you can focus your resources on caring for your patients.

*According to the US Government Accountability Office; Report GAQ-12_778R July 26, 2012


  
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WIREC Featured on HealthIT.gov: EHR Implementation Lessons from the Field
The featured paper explores such issues as the importance of a physician champion, workflow planning, training, and more. Download the paper here.

White Paper: Standardizing the Problem List in the Ambulatory Electronic Health Record to Improve Patient Care 
Maintaining an up-to-date problem list is a core element of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) definition of electronic health record (EHR) “meaningful use” because an accurate problem list is essential to providing better individual patient care across multiple care sites, and serves as a foundation for population management. See how this new white paper can help you leverage the problem list for better patient care and much more. Download the paper here.

White Paper: Providing Clinical Summaries to Patients after Each Office Visit: A Technical Guide
Jeff Hummel, MD, MPH, Medical Director, along with Peggy Evans, PhD, CPHIT, both of Qualis Health, produced this guide, designed to help eligible professionals and their organizations gain a better grasp of how to successfully meet the criteria of giving clinical summaries to patients after each office visit. Read the paper here.

HealthIT.gov: Your Resource for Everything HIT
Have you visited healthIT.gov yet? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) created the website to become the leading national resource on health information technology (health IT) for both consumers and healthcare professionals. Visit the site today!

MU Stage 2 for EPs: Cheat Sheet Looking for a “quick start guide” to Meaningful Use Stage 2? Look no further. This downloadable PDF, developed by WIREC consultant Trudy Bearden, gives you a quick and easy reference to all 17 core measures and the 6 menu measures (of which you must meet 3 to qualify). The “cheat sheet” tells you what the Stage 2 Final Rule says and how it compares to Stage 1.