We recently completed a template suite for NextGen EHR that generates the Worker’s Compensation forms required for California. The template is offered as one of our plug and play template packages.

The California Workers Compensation template suite generates both the 5021 Doctor’s First Report of Injury Form and the PR-2 Primary Treating Physician’s Progress Report. The templates pre-populate with data from the standard clinical encounter templates, eliminating the need for duplicate documentation. Pre-populated data can then be included, excluded, or updated at will on the template, before the forms are generated. Injury and payer information carry forward until a new injury is documented.

For more information, please contact us.

Our Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program for NextGen EHR was recently approved for use by the California Department of Public Health as a replacement to the paper forms that clinics are currently using. The CPSP template suite is available as one of our “plug and play” template package solutions.

Some of the benefits of the CPSP template suite are:

1. Data from the existing OB/GYN templates pre-populates the CPSP templates, reducing duplicate data entry.
2. The templates then guide the clinician through orientation, initial, second trimester, third trimester, and postpartum visits.
3. Data is aggregated from each visit and made available for the next visit, enabling clinicians to meet with the patients as many times as required.
4. The electonic individualized care plan offers far superior documentation capabilities verses the paper individualized care plan.
5. The initial, second trimester, third trimester, individualized care plan, and postpartum documents are all generated automatically.
6. Charges are electronically submitted from EHR to EPM.

The CPSP templates nicely complement our CHDP Template Suite for Medi-Cal practices. For more information on our template suites, please contact us.

We are excited to announce that TempDev has been named an approved service partner for CalHIPSO. As the Regional Extension Center for California (except LA and Orange counties), CalHIPSO is responsible for helping priority primary care providers reach meaningful use. As an approved service partner, we will be providing our optimization and template development services to CalHIPSO enrolled providers. To enroll in CalHIPSO, visit their website and be sure to mention you would like TempDev to help you achieve meaningful use.

TempDev was recently quoted about the ARRA / HITECH stimulus and the recent meaningful use guidelines in Technology Review! Click here to read the article.

Are you interested in joining a rapidly expanding company with plenty of room for growth? Good news! We’d like someone with the following skills. This position requires full time travel in California, Nevada, and Arizona. If interested, please click the Contact link above.

Qualifications:

• NextGen EHR and EPM training experience
• Demonstrated experience developing curriculum for and conducting training courses
• Previous experience training for a KBM or NextGen Version preferred
• Expert level Microsoft Office proficiency
• Project Management skills
• Proven ability to communicate with all levels of leadership
• Self directed and self motivated
• College degree
• NextGen EHR NCP preferred
• Ability to travel in California, Nevada, and Arizona

Please be prepared to provide examples of previously created training documentation.

Today Allscripts & Intuit announced a deal that will integrate Allscripts Practice Management with Intuit Quicken Health systems. Last week at the Health 2.0 Conference Intuit Quicken Health was one of the best demos because you could see how it really changes the patient’s experience. I can’t wait to see it working in combination with an EHR/PM system!

Instead of using CPT descriptions on EOBs they use descriptions patients can easily understand so they know what they’re paying for. It breaks down payments into easily understood math. If the patient doesn’t agree with something on the bill, they can fix errors right on the website. The patient is also able to pay straight from the website.

I saw that Midmark announced their new promotion IQology that is a great deal if you’re thinking about buying devices this year. Basically you get points when buy a device and can use those points to buy supplies or another device. So here’s the deal:

Eligible Products

• ECG – 4 Points
• Cart – 1 Points
• Spiro – 2 Points
• Holter – 6 Points
• Holter EX/EP – 8 Points
• Holter Recorder – 2 Points
• Stress – 8 Points
  

Incentive Products

• $100 Supplies – 1 Point
• $300 Supplies – 2 Points
• Laptop – 6 Points
• Desktop – 8 Points
• Cart – 4 Points
• Holter Recorder – 6 Points
• Spiro – 6 Points
• ECG – 12 Points
  

So when you buy 3 ECGs, you get the 4th one free. If you only want to buy an ECG, you get a cart for free. You buy a Spiro, you get a bunch of supplies for free. So if you’re thinking about buying a device for your EHR, now is a great time because there are fantastic deals. Contact your local Midmark rep for more info.

Today, Dell announced that they will be purchasing Perot Systems in order to improve Dell’s market share in the healthcare IT sector and increase Perot’s international presence. This is another major shift in the EHR market to include some of the big IT powerhouses, which this year has included SalesForce.com’s alliance with PracticeFusion and the eCW / Sam’s Club / Dell deal. As we predicted when ARRA came out, the high profile stimulus is going to continue to reshape the healthcare IT vendor make-up.

A year ago, the major player in NextGen hosting was Tellurian Networks with quite a few hosting clients. Tellurian started as a small hosting operation, and does an excellent job of capturing much of the new EHR ASP hosting market, growing quickly to a powerhouse within its niche. Tellurian was picked up by Perot Systems in November 2008 in a very smart acquisition. So now the customers who signed up for Tellurian will fall under Dell. With Dell’s immense resources, it will be such an exciting change for clients using the ASP model!

Last year, TempDev released our Free Flu Shot Clinic package. To help practices prepare for the coming flu season, the package has been updated to include the codes for the H1N1 vaccine.

The new package still requires only two clicks to document the vaccine, but these two clicks can now be configured to document both the seasonal flu vaccine and H1N1.

The package is also still free for all practices using NextGen! To schedule your free installation, simply fill out this online form.

Business Wire carried this interesting press release regarding NextGen’s continued success in the CHC / FQHC market. While this blog posting might read like an all out commercial for NextGen, I am sincerely impressed with NextGen’s ability to meet the needs of CHCs.

• Out of the box UDS reports, which gather the data directly from the EHR and EPM.
• An open data structure allows for query data to generate reports for grants and other sources of funding, critical for CHCs.
• The ability to customize templates to meet the specific needs of the patient population (which vary much more on the lower end of our country’s socio-economic spectrum) and gather custom data elements needed for grants.
• The flexibility of EPM to meet odd billing requirements oftentimes required by public payers.