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In The News - August 11, 2014 -- SETMA's Achievements in the past 53 weeks
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August 11, 2014 -- SETMA's Achievements in the past 53 weeks

Between July 30, 2013 and August 6, 2014, SETMA has completed renewed accreditation (NCQA & AAAHC) o initial accreditation (URAC and The Joint Commission) for Patient-Centered Medical Home and Ambulatory Care, and also for Reference Laboratory Services (Joint Commission) and NCQA Distinction in Patient Experience Measurement. 

  1. NCQA Tier III PC-MH -- July 30, 2013) - 2010-2016
  2. URAC PC-MH & Ambulatory Care -- February 1. 2-14 -- new
  3. The Joint Commission == PC-MH & Ambulatory Care -- March, 2014 -- new
  4. AAAHC -- PC-MH and Ambulatory Care -- August 6, 2014 - 2010-2017
  5. The Joint Commission Reference Laboratory Accreditation - 2014 -- 2017
  6. CAHPS - Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Services, NCQA PC-MH Distinction in Patient Experience Measurement. - annual recognition
  7. NCQA Diabetes Recognitions and Cardiac/Stroke Recognition) - Diabetes 2010-2016; Cardiac and Stroke 2013-2016
  8. SETMA is now ready for ICD-10 with about four hours work when the date arrives.
  9. SETMA is now ready for SNOMED with about four hours work when the date arrives (same four hours as in number 8).

During this time (January 5, 2014 to August 11, 2014), SETMA has also completed the necessary changes to meet the Standards and Requirements for Meaningful Use 2.  In tomorrow's Monthly Provider Training, we will begin the transition to utilize the functions which we have spent eight months developing.

In December, 2013, SETMA appealed to CMS and the ONC for an extension for MU II measures.  We did not receive a response from Marilyn Tavenner (Marilyn.Tavenner@cms.hhs.gov) or from Jacob Reider (jacob.reider@hhs.gov) so we set about modifying our EHR to meet Meaningful Use II.  These modifications were required because of our early adoption (1998) of EHR. 

After eight months, we have accomplished that task. In January, 2015, we will submit data for Oct-Dec, 2014 on our Meaningful Use II compliance. 

A number of people have worked on all of these task, including SETMA’s Accreditation Team (Margaret Ross, Jon Owens, Theresa Bailey, Jayne Bryant, Pat Crawford, Dr. Holly).  As already mentioned, SETMA’s laboratory team including Gary Martin, Tiffany Wilkins, Kathy McBride, Craig Cerny and Amanda Broucher, did an outstanding job achieving Joint Commission Accreditation for our laboratory.

On Tuesday, August 12, all providers will be involved in training for Meaningful Use II.  SETMA’s nurse and front office staff has already been working on their workflow with the new standards.

SETMA has ever reason to be proud of our achievements. Congratulations.