Clinical Software Partners

If you develop clinical application software and you want to help your client benefit from the tens of billions of incentives for Medicare and Medicaid providers through the ARRA’s HITECH provisions, we can help!

The incentives are available to providers who not only adopt electronic health records but also become “meaningful users” of them. On July 16, 2009, the HIT Policy Committee has approved a matrix that outlines a definition of meaningful use that includes several patient education components. According to this structure, for providers to receive incentives for HIT implementation, they will have to provide patients and their families with timely access to data and tools to make informed decisions and to manage their health.

The following are the implications of a service or product we provide to our EMR partners:

• Provide patients with an electronic copy (and timely electronic access to) of their health information (including lab results, problem list, medication lists, allergies) upon request
• Provide access to patient-specific education resources (X-Plain auto prescribes based on ICD9 and CPT coding)
• Provide clinical summaries for each encounter (X-Plain prints diagnostic and treatment summaries)
• Provide discharge summaries (including electronic copies at discharge) for inpatient care (X-Plain prints the discharge summaries)
• Access for all patients to personal health record (PHR) populated in real time with health data
• Offer secure patient-provider messaging capability
• Provide access to patient-specific educational resources in common primary languages (X-Plain is available in English and Spanish; selected topics are available in other languages)
• Record patient preferences (e.g., preferred communication media, advance directive, health care proxies, treatment options) (X-Plain provides the education in various formats)
• Upload data from home monitoring device
• Patients have access to self-management tools (X-Plain self-care libraries)
• Electronic reporting of experience of care (X-Plain evaluation and survey services)

With $44,000 of incentives at stake for each physician treating Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, the federal government has established significant enticement to providers to establish an infrastructure that facilitates electronic delivery and documentation of patient education.

Please contact our Director of Business Relations at (866) 452-6203.