Webinar Series
This webinar series is intended to:
- Introduce practical steps that providers can take to reach “meaningful use” of EHRs
- Share updates about the government’s new cost-sharing programs for EHR implementation
- Provide a platform for Washington and Idaho providers to learn from each other’s successes and challenges related to EHR use
Event registration opens approximately one month prior to the live webinar.
View the archive of previous sessions.
| Session 15 Date and time: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time Speaker: | Quality healthcare is a high priority for President Obama, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). HHS and CMS began launching Quality Initiatives in 2001 to assure quality healthcare for all Americans through accountability and public disclosure. To understand the different Medicare quality initiatives that are currently available to providers, please join Jennifer Magyar from the Medicare Region Ten Office as she defines the programs and explains how they might impact you. Attendees will come away from the webinar grounded in the following: • CMS Quality Initiatives defined, such as the Physician Quality Reporting System, e-prescribing program, and others • Similarities and differences between the CMS Quality Initiatives • Where to get more information on CMS Quality Initiatives | |
| Session 16 Date and time: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time Speaker: | Patient engagement is a key theme of the stage 1 meaningful use criteria. It is expected that there will be additional criteria related to patient and family engagement in meaningful use stages 2 and 3. Discover how the electronic health record can be a tool to engage patients rather than distance them in this informative webinar, led by Dr. Dan Lessler, Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Associate Medical Director at the Harborview Medical Center. Come away ready to use your EHR as a way to connect with your patients and get solid tips on: • Strengthening communications skills/styles when using the EH • Using the EHR as a tool for gathering data • Utilizing the EHR as a vehicle for patient engagement • Avoiding common pitfalls related to body language and “data overload” • Leveraging the EHR to improve communication | |
| Session 17 Date and time: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time Speakers: | Our line-up includes: • A distinguished roster of experts presenting on an exhaustive list of meaningful use topics, such as: o Privacy and Security o The Journey to Meaningful Use o Successful Go-Live o Workflow Redesign o Patient Centered Medical Home and Meaningful Use o Patient Engagement o Change Management o And more • The opportunity to learn from your peers and network with like-minded professionals who have faced the same challenges you face. Come away with the benefit of their experience as they made a successful transition to meaningful use. Gain invaluable insight that will help you avoid pitfalls and come up with the most efficient workflow solutions, so that you improve the quality of care you give to your patients.
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| Session 18 Date and time: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time Read the Session Transcript Speakers: | Three experts from the WIREC team lead you through the EHR Change Management Process. Each speaker provides you with invaluable information for making the right choices and avoiding pitfalls every step of the way of successfully implementing and using your EHR. Come away from the webinar with solid tools to improve workflow, enhance practice management, and standardize communications with staff and patients for maximum success. Learn how to: • Ensure a successful go-live through dress rehearsals • Maximize team-based communications to get the results you want • Drive outcomes using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) principles and use standardized metrics to measure your progress along the way Carolyn Brill, WIREC Health IT Consultant, shows you how to utilize a “dress rehearsal” before your system “Go-Live” date to ensure all the right elements are in place for successful implementation. Katie Verd, MA, CPHIT, WIREC Health IT Consultant, discusses optimal communications strategies during your implementation. She’ll give you valuable tips for standardizing communications with both staff and patients. Helen Stroebel, RN, MPH, CPHIT, WIREC Health IT Consultant, delves into the principles you need to consider to make your change management sustainable in the long run. Join us for thoughtful, insightful, and practical guidance in making your EHR journey from start to finish! | |
| Session 19 Date and time: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time View OneHealthPort PowerPoint Slides View IHDE PowerPoint Slides Speakers: | This month’s webinar focuses on the state Health Information Exchanges in Idaho and Washington State. RECs help physicians in the selection, implementation and use of electronic health records (EHRs), while HIEs provide the infrastructure across which the information collected by those EHRs can be exchanged. This relationship is a natural one because RECs and HIEs share a common goal: facilitating the exchange of patient information to improve health outcomes and care quality. Listen as Sue Merk from Washington’s OneHealthPort (OHP) HIE and Scott Carrell from the Idaho Health Information Data Exchange (IHDE) give valuable information on the importance of HIEs and how your practice can benefit from their work. Sue Merk will provide an overview of the message exchange service and how it differs from repository model HIEs. A new meaningful use (MU) Metric Service program will be reviewed with an outline of how this new service will simplify MU reporting for Medicaid EHR Incentive program participants in Washington State. Webinar participants will come away from Ms. Merk’s session able to accomplish the following:
Scott Carrell offers the five “W”s of the Idaho Health Data Exchange:
Webinar attendees will gain the following knowledge from Mr. Carrell’s presentation:
Information will also be provided on how IHDE is waiving first year annual fees for Idaho providers and hospitals. Sign up today for what is sure to be a highly informative and useful-information-packed webinar!
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