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Vermont's eight Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), located throughout the state, now have operational electronic health records systems, enhancing quality of care for 121,682 Vermonters who receive primary care through the Community Health Centers.

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Vermont Medicaid EHR Incentives Available

Submitted by slarose on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 04:49

We sent out an email blast on Friday, Sept. 30 alerting everyone on our email list that Vermont Medicaid is opening up registration for EHR incentives. If you didn't get it, we've put the same information in the VITL website news section. Click here to read the announcement.

Representatives of CMS answer audience questions about meaningful use during this breakout session at the VITL Summit '11, recorded on Sept. 7, 2011.

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John Allison from CMS and Terry Bequette from the Department of Vermont Health Access discuss Medicaid meaningful use criteria and provide information about how to qualify for EHR incentive payments. This was recorded on Sept. 7, 2011 at the VITL Summit '11 conference.

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In this VITL Summit '11 breakout session, representatives from CMS and VITL provide advice for eligible professionals who are preparing to attest to achieving meaningful use of their EHRs.

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John Halamka, MD, gave the keynote address at the VITL Summit '11 conference on Sept. 7, 2011. In the address, he provided a look ahead at the criteria for stages 2 and 3 of meaningful use. He also spoke about the strategies that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center uses for health information exchange and to improve care quality using health information technology.

Staff from Middlebury Family Health, the first physician practice in Vermont to achieve meaningful use of its electronic health records system, discusses how they did it during this webinar. Also discussed are how the practice adopted and implemented its Medent EHR, and how VITL's regional extension center program helped the practice. Click here to read the press release about Middlebury Family Health becoming the first practice in Vermont to attest to meaningful use.

In this webinar, VITL staff discuss the process for attesting to meaningful use in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.

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In this installment of VITL's monthly meaningful use webinar series, Terry Bequette, associate state health IT coordinator at the Department of Vermont Health Access, discusses eligibility and the attestation process for the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program.  Click here to download the slides.

 

NextGen Healthcare Named VITL Preferred EHR Partner

Submitted by slarose on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 10:53

Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL), the federally-designated health IT regional extension center for Vermont, announced today that it has selected an additional preferred EHR partner.

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