Preparing for Meaningful Use:

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Preparing for Meaningful Use Assessment and
Plan Dorian Seamster Director of Quality
Improvement Services September 2010
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About CalHIPSO

• Formed by three key partners representing target
  priority primary care providers
• California Medical Association (CMA)
• California Association of Public Hospitals
  Health Systems (CAPH)
• California Primary Care Association (CPCA)
• CalHIPSO is tasked with supporting 6,187 targeted
  PPCPs throughout CA

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Our Purpose

• What kind of process and when?
• What is needed for Gap Analysis, Assessment?
• Needs for addressing the Gaps?

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Meaningful Use

• Functional Measures
• 15 Core Objectives
• 5 Menu Set Objectives
• Clinical Measures
• 3 Core Clinical measures
• 3 Menu Set Objectives

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• Record smoking status
• Transmit Prescriptions electronically
• Maintain Up to Date Problem list

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Some Considerations

• EHR capacity discrete data capture
• Workflow is someone entering the data
  consistently?
• Reporting capacity/accessibility
• Partners (HIE) labs, pharmacies, hospital

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Family Health Centers of San Diego An Approach
to Meaningful Use

• Systematic Review/Goal Alignment
• Inventory Information Assets and Capability
• Analyze and Conduct Gap Analysis
• Assess Information Technology Infrastructure
• Environmental Scan to Assess Other Impacts
• Organize to Manage and Meter Established
  Meaningful Use Objectives/Benchmarks
• Monitor, Track and Report

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Systematic Approach for Alignment
GOALS
Systems Process Measures Policy Review Resear
ch
Patient Communication Services Survey Structure
d Data Continuously Improve
Information Exchange Consent Network Standards
Structured Data
Registries Surveillance Research Structured Dat
a Reporting
Systems Administration Consent Policy Regulati
on
ALIGN WITH
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What do you need for assessment?

• Dashboards across practice reached
• Supporting documentation definitions,
  exclusions, inclusions
• Examples of the assessment forms available now