Certified Medical Records

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EMR Certifying BodiesBasics
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Background

• Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for
  Health Information Technology has named the
  following as Authorized Testing and Certification
  Bodies for EHR
• Certification Commission for Health Information
  Technology (CCHIT)
• Drummond Group Inc.
• InfoGuard Laboratories Inc.

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The best fit?

• Most people just want to ensure they get ARRA
  stimulus money to pay for their EHR.
• With either certification one is able to tell a
  clinic that it is a certified EHR.
• Most physicians dont care or know about the
  difference in the certification types.
• So, choose according to
• Need of your specialty
• Size of your practice
• Pattern of your practice

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Affordable Care Act (ACA) - highlights

• Cost savings estimation _at_ 575 billion over the
  next 10 years.
• Selected Affordable Care Act provisions to save
  8 billion over the next 2 years.
• Medicare beneficiary Part B premiums to be down
  almost 200 annually.
• Primary driver of Healthcare costs - Perverse
  incentives in existing payment structures that
  reward providers for the volume of services
  delivered, rather than quality of those services.

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Affordable Care Act (ACA) - highlights

• Cost containment strategies Reimbursement take
  away from hospitals Physicians.
• QoC initiatives to save 15 billion over next 10
  years.
• Delivery system to save 29 billion over 10
  years.
• Appropriately pricing services modernizing the
  finance system saves 370 billion over 10 years.
• Fighting fraud, waste and abuse to save 5
  billion over 10 years.

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Meaningful Usage Stages

• Complete program has 5 years timelines
• Stage 1 defined
• Stage 2 and 3 in progress
• Binary Spectrum completes Stage 1 successfully

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