Health IT
June 2017 – Newsletter
The June Newsletter is now available with topics on: STI Computer Services Partners with Compliancy Group, The Guard CMS Releases Lookup Tool to Help Clinicians Determine Their MIPS Participation Status CPC+ Round 2 Application Process is Now Open Rochester RHIO Data Exchange Incentive Program (DEIP) Read the full version here: http://eepurl.com/cPWFcb
Read MoreProtect Your Office From Ransomware
STI Managed Services had one of its busiest Decembers due to offices being brought down by Ransomware attacks. These criminals are getting more and more creative. Some offices saw nearly a week of lost productivity. The most common attacks are from old and open Firewalls, clicking on infected attachments in emails, not maintaining security patches…
Read MoreClinical Practice Improvement Activities and Measurement Study
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting a Clinical Practice Improvement Activities (CPIA) Study, as outlined in the MACRA final rule. Applications for this study will be accepted from January 1 – 31, 2017. Clinicians and groups who are eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) that participate successfully in the…
Read MoreEPCS Token Renewal
For those of you who signed up for Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) two years ago when the feature was first released, your token will most likely need to be renewed in the next couple weeks or months. When that time comes you will receive an email from IdenTrust notifying you that your IdenTrust…
Read MorePatient Education Goes Electronic
As the industry focuses more on patient education through quality payment programs such as MIPS your practice will need a way to distribute materials to your patients. The ChartMaker® PatientPortal is a great portal to facilitate this exchange. There are two ways to upload documents, depending on whether you want the information to be public…
Read MoreThe ePA Process Has Been Streamlined
We have been working hard to improve the Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) workflow over the last several months. In ChartMaker® Medical Suite 2016 version 6.1.5, we implemented a new eligibility request to occur upon chart open automatically, if the old one had different demographic data than currently exists in the chart. In version 6.1.7, we added…
Read MoreCompletEPA® Updates to PBM and Payer Formulary Files
Released by Surescripts on 8/31/16 Updates to PBM and Payer Formulary Files to Drive an Improved User Experience As electronic prior authorization usage increases across the network, PBMs and payers now have better visibility into the drugs that are flagged for PA and the prescribing patterns for those drugs. This allows PBMs and payers to…
Read MoreCMS Allows You to Pick Your Pace for MIPS in 2017
Andy Slavitt, Acting Director of CMS, released a statement on September 8th outlining CMS’ plans for introducing the new set of programs collectively called Quality Payment Programs, which include MACRA and MIPS. The main focus of this communication was to highlight their plan to allow providers to pick their pace in which they adopt the…
Read MoreCompletEPA® Accelerator 16.4 Release Highlights
Released by Surescripts on 8/23/16 As part of Surescripts’ ongoing commitment to update and improve the CompletEPA Accelerator based on network activity and customer feedback, users will notice a few Accelerator changes in both the Staging and Production environments. Development changes for the 16.4 development period will be deployed to Staging on 9/1 and Production…
Read MorePreventing Inappropriate Transmission of “Test” e-Prescriptions
Released by Surescripts on 8/25/16 Surescripts has identified incidences in which network prescribers have sent “test” NewRx e-prescriptions in the live production environment to pharmacies. In all of these instances, prescribers did not actually intend for the pharmacy to dispense the prescribed medication orders. It is important to note that significant potential risks may arise…
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