Meaningful Use Consulting

Your Partner in Achieving Meaningful Use

Ensuring compliance with meaningful use criterion can be a daunting task, and its consequences are immeasurable. CMS incentive payments to meaningful users can have a profound impact on the financial viability of a practice. Engaging experienced consultants substantially reduces uncertainty, guiding your practice down a path towards meaningful use.

Among AHP’s proprietary evaluation tools is a functional tool intended to assess an organization’s use of its EHR. The tool uses a variety of algorithms to calculate modular compliance as well as a cumulative utilization ratio; the results of which allow us to identify and quantify deficiencies in our clients’ use of EHRs.

 

                               

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide reimbursement incentives for eligible professionals and hospitals who are successful in becoming “meaningful users” of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. AHP is currently  contracted by the State of New Jersey Primary Care Association to help their member community health centers achieve evolving criteria for meaningful use. These 20 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and their satellite sites are the major providers of comprehensive community-based primary health care for 19 counties.

The AHP team is conducting an assessment to determine if each FQHC’s EHR system contains all the functionality necessary to achieve meaningful use timeframes and objectives as specified by CMS. In addition, the assessment will encompass the Government’s criteria for security, privacy, and interoperability as expressed in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and as stipulated in the Recovery Act. We are using our own specifically designed tool kits to measure compliance with each of the criteria. AHP’s extensive experience and expertise in this critical area enables us to be efficient partners for FQHRs that are making the transition to a paperless world of medical records and practice management.