Fulcrum Methods Meaningful Use Assessment Tool is a structured approach for hospitals and eligible professionals to evaluate their EHR capabilities for incentive payment qualification under ARRA Meaningful Use criteria. Our EP Tracker™ is a structured approach for medical groups and health systems to centrally administer and track meaningful use registration and reporting/attestation for their affiliated eligible professionals (EPs). Fulcrum Methods' Pre-Attestation Compliance Services provide independent testing and verification of an organization's readiness to attest to incentive payment qualifications under ARRA EHR meaningful use criteria.
Meaningful Use Assessment Tool
Using our SaaS-based meaningful use tool, all meaningful use requirements and certification standards are accessible in a user-friendly format by hospital or eligible provider classification. The meaningful use tool includes project management capabilities that track remediation initiatives. The meaningful use tool is also highly adaptable and supports a flexible report writer. Users can generate and sort various reports based on meaningful use compliance, unresolved items, and remediation complexity by clinical service location.
Fulcrum Methods Meaningful Use Assessment Tool is continually updated for the most current ARRA qualification requirements. Users can:
- Ensure organization-wide electronic health records (EHRs) are deployed in a meaningful way, compliant with certification standards
- Assess multiple EHRs and other related systems throughout the organization (including primary and service line EHRs)
- Assess eligible providers (clinics, medical groups and IPAs) affiliated with an organization
- Assess workflows by clinical service or location/campus that have an impact on meaningful use
- Scope remediation efforts including:
- More effective use of technology
- Increased use of data fields
- Revision of clinical workflows
- Estimate required resources for remediation
- Ensure implementations meet meaningful use and certification standards
- Support system-wide compliance
- See for each criteria gaps, remediation initiatives, actions needed for remediation, responsible parties for remediation, resource estimates, key milestones, status, and deadlines
- Includes use of EH Tracker which tracks meaningful use registration and reporting/attestation for eligible hospitals
- Currently in use at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, John Muir Health, MaineHealth, University Hospitals, and NorthBay HealthCare, among others
EP Tracker™
Using our SaaS-based tool, hospitals, healthcare systems, and medical groups can provide administration and oversight to affiliated EPs to ensure they have properly registered for and successfully completed requirements to qualify for meaningful use incentives. All critical meaningful use registration, reporting, and attestation information is readily accessible in a user-friendly format. The EP Tracker is highly adaptable and provides views of registration and attestation status for individual physicians or groups of physicians. Users can also track remediation status and incentive funds flow to physicians.
The tool tracks critical EP information throughout all three stages of meaningful use and beyond. With the EP Tracker healthcare organizations can:
- Centrally administer the systematic and lifelong process of individual EP registration and reporting/attestation
- Assess individual EP readiness
- Assess medical group readiness
- Track attestation
- Estimate EP funds receipt by year and program
- Monitor EP funds flow
- Track EP funds assignment
- Track individual EP remediation tasking
- Assist with EP and medical group compliance management
- Promote master file maintenance
Pre-Attestation Compliance Services
CMS is planning field or document submission audits to ensure meaningful use attestations are legitimate. Significant responsibility and liability exist with members of the C-suite should a healthcare provider attest positively and then fail an audit. Fulcrum Methods offers services that will provide compliance controls and comfort to organizations such that when you do attest, you are doing so accurately.
Fulcrum Methods services are designed to support your CMS Stage 1 attestation. Services include the following:
- A review of your organization's meaningful use program structure, processes, and governance
- A detailed on-site test using Fulcrum's meaningful use assessment tool of your organization's performance against meaningful use measures
- Creation of an attestation workbook, including organization signoff and supporting documents
- Review of reporting and attestation schedule
- Additional remediation assessment (if needed)
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Fulcrum Meaningful Use Since the beginning of 2011 Seven Client Organizations Representing: Client EHRs:
Helpful Meaningful Use Links CMS Meaningful Use Overview
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