NYC DOHMH PCIP eClinicalWorks Presentation: A review by Dr Ted Eytan

Dr Eytan was kind enough to attend the presentation and has provided his observations at the PCHIT Blog. SV

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The NYCDOH Primary Care Information Project and eClinicalWorks Electronic Medical Records Demonstration

Thursday March 20th from 5:30pm-7:30pm.

Program Agenda

5:30pm-5:45pm
DOHMH PCIP Program Overview Mat Kendall, Director of Operations Primary Care
Information Project

5:45pm-6:00pm
eClinicalWorks Provider Experience Review and Q&A Session

Salvatore Volpe, MD FAAP FACP

6:00pm-7:00pm eClinicalWorks Demonstration
Scott Hakanson, Product Specialist
eClinical Works

7:00pm-7:30pm
General Question and Answer

Richmond University Medical Center
Sipp Auditorium
355 Bard Ave, Staten Island, NY

For more information, please send an email to pcip@health.nyc.gov , call (212)341-2263, or visit the PCIP website www.nyc.gov/pcip


If you have a practice on Staten Island please register for the event.
If you know some one who has a practice on Staten Island please encourage her/him to attend.

Thanks

Registration link

NYC DOHMH helps EHR software vendor develop features to monitor and improve population health

I have seen the team in action and it is very impressive. Under Dr Mostashari's leadership, a highly motivated group including physicians and public health professionals have significantly accelerated the evolution of Electronic Health Records. SV

Although e-health records are often touted as supporting disease prevention and better patient care, the systems available to doctors and clinics do not achieve those goals, an assistant commissioner of New York City’s health department told a congressional panel.

Even systems certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology generally lack four features needed to improve population health, said Dr. Farzad Mostashari, who heads New York City’s Primary Care Information Project.

He listed these features:


Structured data collection -- using standard terms and codes that can be interpreted by computers -- for a minimal set of priority clinical terms, such as smoking status.


Registry functions, which enable users to generate lists of patients needing certain treatments or tests. For example, a medical practice should be able to compile a list of all patients over age 50 who have not had colon exams and send them reminders.


Quality measures, or built-in capabilities to assess the health of a set of patients and how well they are being treated for priority conditions.


Decision support tools, which deliver reminders and warnings to doctors and inform them of best practices in treatment.

Mostashari said the city is working with its chosen EHR vendor to build these features into its system and will work with users of other products and their software providers to add functionality to those systems. Although Mostashari did not name the vendor, it is Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks.

He spoke at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement.


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eClinicalWorks Becomes Part of Hudson Valley Health Information Exchange and will be offered to almost 5000 physicians

Congratulations. SV

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. & FISHKILL, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eClinicalWorks™, a market leader in unified EMR/PM systems, today announced that the company’s unified electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) system is available to physician practices involved in the Hudson Valley Health Information Exchange (HVHIE). eClinicalWorks is collaborating with the Taconic Health Information Network and Community Regional Health Information Organization (THINC RHIO) on this initiative.

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GHI HIP NYCDOHMH Seminar on applying for EHR funding

The Tuesday November 9th, 2007 deadline for receiving city funds for an EHR is fast approaching. SV

Find out how you may receive city funds to improve administrative efficiences and reduce the day-to-day cost of running your practice with an Electronic Health Records system.

Featured Speakers

Mat Kendall, Director of Operations, PCIP NYCDOH
Sidd Shah, Project Director eClinicalWorks
Dr Aron Ron, Chief Medical Officer
Dr Salvatore Volpe, practicing physician, Health information Technology spokesman

Date
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
6-8:30 PM, Buffet Dinner provided

6:00-6:45: Registration and buffet dinner

6:45-7:00: Introduction and opening remarks (Dr. Aron Ron, Chief Medical Officer)

7:00-715: NYCDOH PCIP Program overview (Mat Kendall)

7:15-7:30: Physician eCW user experience (Dr. Sal Volpe)

7:30-8:15: eCW Demo (Sidd Shah)

8:15-8:30: Questions

Location

HIP Health Plan of New York
55 Water Street, third floor
NY NY 10041

Call 1.866.447.9717, option 5 to register or

email providercomm@hipusa.com or

Click on "Conference brochure" and fax completed registration form to 1-877-849-1993

NYC HEAL 5 Grant Category III: Pilot Implementations of Community-wide Interoperable EHRs

If you or a peer practice in NYC, this can be an excellent opportunity.
Please share this with information with others. SV

Background
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)’s Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) is dedicated to improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care for Medicaid recipients and other underserved populations in New York City through the adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs).

As part of a Mayoral initiative, the DOHMH has received $30 million from New York City, to support over 1,300 primary care providers to adopt an EHR that is designed to foster community health. To be eligible to participate in this element of the project, a provider must either practice in a District Public Health Office (DPHO) area, or care for a population where at least 30% of their patients are on Medicaid/Child health plus or are uninsured. These eligible providers will receive assistance that will allow them to implement the Take Care New York (TCNY) version of eClinicalWorks (eCW) EHR that contains special functionalities developed by the DOHMH that are designed to assist providers to deliver high quality preventative health care.

The DOHMH has secured additional external support to enhance the project and expand its eligibility criteria. It received a $3.2 million HEAL I, that will allow 29 NYC Community Health Centers (CHCs), comprised of 648 providers at more than 150 locations, to adopt an interoperable EHR system with public health functionality. It has received a $3 million Center of Excellence grant in public health informatics that it is using to research the optimal ways that EHRs can be used to support public health goals, such as improved population health. Finally, it has received a grant from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) to evaluate the project and disseminate its findings nationally.

HEAL V Goal
To assist over 650 primary care providers operating in the NYC community, who currently aren’t eligible for the mayoral funded program, to adopt an EHR that will allow them to improve the quality of care they deliver to their entire patient population.

Plan of Action
In HEAL NY Phase 5, DOHMH will serve as the lead applicant, or CHITA, to contract with New York State. This proposal will specifically extend the EHR to 665 providers, who aren’t eligible for the mayoral support project (i.e., do not care for a population where at least 30% of patients are on Medicaid/Child health plus or are uninsured), but who serve Medicaid beneficiaries and are interested in adopting a public health focused EHR including. Specialists would fall to hospitals or pay their own way. Non-eligible providers include:
a) Physician practices and ambulatory care clinicians in solo and small physician offices;
b) General hospital(s) with clinical affiliation to CHITA clinicians
c) Diagnostic and treatment centers and facilities
All providers participating in the project will receive the TCNY eCW EHR system that will contain decision support tools such as point-of-care reminders that incorporate clinical guidelines and specific public health indicators developed by the DOHMH and interfaces with DOHMH information systems such as the Citywide Immunization Registry. Using its existing contract, DOHMH will propose to use HEAL NY funds to purchase the licenses, implementation and support services, necessary to assist primary care providers to adopt the TCNY eCW EHR system, which is valued at approximately $12,000 per provider full time equivalent (FTE). Each provider FTE, however, will be expected to contribute $4,000 to a shared technical assistance pool and document at least $8,000 in in-kind contributions, which can include the purchase of new information technology hardware and lost productivity due to training and go-live scheduling.

Providers that are interested in participating in the project must complete an application (attached), a HEAL NY letter of intent and financial commitment form and return it to DOHMH by Friday November 9th, 2007. Completed documents should be sent via fax to (212) 788-3240 and via email to pcip@health.nyc.gov. Questions should be sent to Mat Kendall, PCIP Director of Operations mkendall@health.nyc.gov or Reena Samantaray, PCIP Outreach Coordinator rsamanta@health.nyc.gov (212) 341-2263

Columbia University Medical Center Physicians Select Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 2,200 Physicians

This will have a major ripple effect in the community as physicians attempt to research EHR products for their practice.

The NYC DOH PCIP has chosen eClinicalworks for it roll out to over 1000 physicians.

Interoperablity between major EHRs such Allscripts, eClinicalworks and Eclipsys would be boon for patients and health care providers alike. SV

Allscripts

eClinical Works will use IMH (Instant Medical History) in the updated version of their Patient Portal

I am long time user of IMH as a free standing product and as part of Phreesia.
Integration with the Patient Portal will be a boon for eCW clients. SV


IMH

eClinicalWorks