“Overview of Meaningful Use Stage 1 Quality Measures for the Safety Net Community“

Thursday December 9th, 2010
2pm to 4pm EST – 12pm to 2pm MST

In July of 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program Final Rule was published. Since the release of the final rule there are many questions that still remain from safety net providers concerning how to become a meaningful user of health information technology (IT) and how to qualify for the CMS Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentives. One area of concern regards the final rule’s Meaningful Use Stage 1 clinical quality measures (CQM). In order to receive the program’s EHR incentives safety net providers participating in the CMS program will be required to capture and report CQMs to demonstrate they are using health IT in a meaningful way. This webinar will bring together experts on Meaningful Use Stage 1 CQMs to answer the safety net community’s questions on this topic. The presenters will cover a variety of aspects on this topic including: an overview of the inpatient and outpatient CQMs and how they pertain to urban and rural safety net providers, as well as the role of the National Quality Forum in endorsing these measures. In addition, the time frame of the webinar will be extended an extra 30 minutes to accommodate participant questions to the presenters. (Registration Info Below)

Presenters Include:
• Seiji Hayashi, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer, HRSA’s Bureau of Primary Healthcare
• Thomas Tsang, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director, Meaningful Use, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
• Helen Burstin, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President for Performance Measures of The National. Quality Forum

Registration Info:
Event address for attendees: https://ohit.webex.com/ohit/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=993728097
Event number: 993 728 097
Event Password: portal

Any questions and comments can be sent to HRSA’s Health IT mailbox at healthit@hrsa.gov.