Meaningful Use and Healthcare IT Training

Meaningful Use: Are you ready?

The new Meaningful Use standards issued by HHS offer well-prepared healthcare providers an unprecedented opportunity to collect large financial bonuses. But meeting these standards won’t be easy.

To comply with Meaningful Use rules, providers will need to make extensive use of certified electronic healthcare records (EHRs) not only to capture and share data, but also to employ advanced electronic clinical processes that result in improved outcomes.

Providers have five years to complete their Meaningful Use rollout, but the first requirements will kick in next year. To meet this deadline – and the others that follow -- providers will need to implement new health IT initiatives quickly and effectively. That’s where Netspective can be of service.

How Netspective can help

Netspective’s team of healthcare IT experts help you create an optimized IT infrastructure that will enable you to take full advantage of the MU opportunity. Along the way, we’ll help you develop a long-term enterprise strategy that will ensure enhanced efficiency, better healthcare, greater safety and improved patient experiences.

Not only that, we’ll help you put a meaningful use-compliant IT environment and governance structure in place which will support your existing goals and assist you in meeting these standards in the future.

Using tools like Embarcadero’s ER/Studio Portal, Netspective will help you identify areas of MU to target and define criteria for success. We’ll identify and catalog all data sources and sinks, all existing applications and services and all external interfaces that you’ll need to use to ensure MU compliance.

Our process includes the following steps:

• Analyzing and if needed re-designing your clinical workflow
• Assessing and optimizing existing technology investments
• Appraising your organization’s ARRA readiness
• Creating an MU compliance roadmap
• Chalking out an EHR implementation plan
• Assisting with implementation and upgrades
• Providing project management oversight throughout the process
• Ensuring you’re ‘shovel ready’ when the time of reckoning comes