Galen Healthcare Solutions: Allscripts Consultants Enterprise EHR

As many of our loyal blog followers know, the Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) is Allscripts annual user conference, and a huge event for Galen. It’s a time for us to reconnect with clients, Allscripts contacts, and build new relationships. The theme of this year’s conference was “GO” – the time is now to implement an EHR, and ensure groups are setup to exhibit Meaningful Use.

Some of my own key highlights and takeaways from ACE:

• “The Path to Meaningful Use”
  • Allscripts offered a handy trail guide for ACE:

• The theme of “Community”
  • Our CEO, Steve McQueen, exhibited some pre-conference foresight in lending his own insight into Galen’s community
  • MyAllscripts - client portal for all Allscripts products facilitating collaboration via discussion forums, enhancement idea exchanges and blogs.

• Analytics
  • Dan Mingle, Chief Physician Execute from Maine MSO and Dan Reber, Lead Product Architect at Precision BI led an informative session on the Analytics product, touching on the correct process to implement Analytics as well as using the cross-tab analysis and linked group analysis.
  • I was unaware of its existence, but a user group community has been established for analytics
  • Precision BI has a roadmap for several improvements

• Aternity – an Allscripts performance monitoring solution
  • The ideal tool is non-invasive, comprehensive, accurate and provides an aggregated analysis
  • Facilitates user-centric proactive IT management
  • Yields performance by location, variation by site, and performance over time

• Allscripts Product Portfolio Roadmap – Jon Zimmerman, Allscripts Senior VP Solutions Management
  • Revenue Mix Changes:
    • Today: Fee for Service and Bonus Payments
    • Tomorrow: Fee for Service, Bonus Payments for Savings, Contract per Patient per Month, and Other P4P
  • Systems Evolution
    • Paper Health Records -> Electronic Health Records -> Electronic Health Systems -> Intelligent Networks
  • Connectivity Blueprint:
    • Allscripts HUB: Connecting commercial lab, hospital, pharmacy, payer, HIE, government registries, and sate RHIO
    • Services Framework: EntEHR, PM, ProEHR, MyWay

For more information regarding the topics touched on above, be sure to visit MyAllscripts to view presentations from ACE.

Thanks again for everyone who stopped by our booth to say hello. It was both great to see old friends and establish new relationships. And a special congrats goes out to Melissa Singh, Analyst at NSLIJ, for winning the grand prize – an Apple IPAD – in our “Spin and Win” drawing.

Tags: Allscripts, Allscripts Enterprise EHR, EHR Implementation, Enterprise EHR, Meaningful Use

Galen Healthcare Solutions is proud to announce that we will be continuing our popular series of free webcasts this fall related to Allscripts Enterprise EHR.   These Webcasts will cover topics including Analytics, Allscripts Enterprise EHR Note, Interfaces, Reports, Allscripts Enterprise EHR Orders, Tech System maintenance.

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Tags: Allscripts, Enterprise Order, Galen Webcast Series, Integration, Interfaces, Meaningful Use, Technical

Galen Healthcare Solutions will be hosting a series of free webcasts covering Allscripts EHR Infrastructure. The purpose of these webcasts is to provide insight into the integration of server roles in your EHR environment. We will cover the Message Server role in our first instance.

Tech – The Message Server

This webcast provides insight into the flow of data for the processes handled by Allscripts’ Message Server role. Topics covered will include configuration and troubleshooting of the TW Spooler service, as well as the workspaces involved in printing administration.

July 20, 2010 – 2:00pm-3:30pm: To register and reserve a spot please click here.

July 22, 2010 – 10:00am-11:30am: To register and reserve a spot please click here.

Last night, my colleagues and I attended a New England HIMSS event in Wellesley, MA covering Mobile Health. After battling through brutal traffic commuting from Boston to Wellesley during rush hour, we arrived and were all equally impressed with the night’s speaker -  Robert Havasy, Business Analyst at the Center for Connected Health in Massachusetts. I particularly liked the presentation technology used for his pitch – Prezi - a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides.

Some key takeaways from the presentation:

• Will the FDA regulate smart phones or mobile devices and treat them as medical devices?
• Patients are unencumbered by the regulatory process
• Two focus areas for mobile health technology
  • Capturing Data – vitals, blood sugar, etc
  • Coaching – guiding patients to make better choices
• Sunscreen adherence using mobile technology
  • Electronic monitor used to accurately measure usage of sunscreen
  • Reminder texts sent to mobile phone
  • After six weeks adherence rates for the reminder group were almost double that of the control group who did not receive reminder texts: 56 versus 30 percent.
• Utilizing text messaging to influence patient behavior -Center for Connected Health – project in Lynn, MA.
  • Two areas of focus: Opiate addiction and Teenage pregnancy
  • Localization is important – mention people by places and name
  • Who the message was from (especially doctor) meant more to patients that if it were personally addressed to them
  • Barrier to participation – cost – patients were afraid they would have to pay for the additional text messages
  • Unleash the nurses – nurse evangelist sells benefits to non-physician staff
  • Offset workflow changes in offices – take administration off of practice
  • Sustainable reimbursement structure – engage carriers – CMS – insurers – alternative quality contracts
• Northeastern University, working in collaboration with industry players, announced an incubator program for mobile health technologies. Contact Dan Feinberg, Director, Graduate Health Informatics Program at Northeastern University, President at New England Chapter of HIMSS, for more information

Tags: ehealth initiative, Extensibility, Integration, Interoperability, Meaningful Use, mHealth

Galen Healthcare Solutions will be hosting a series of free webcasts covering the Allscripts EHR database and Allscripts Analytics application.

The purpose of the EHR webcasts is to give a detailed view into the underlying database schemas as well as useful queries for the Patient and Order/Results tables. For Analytics we will be covering a basic overview of the Analytics applications as well as detailed examples using Worksheets and Crosstabs. 

These will be structured in a similar format to university courses – the three classes will be at 100 (intro) levels.  The list of the webcasts and their times may be found below.

Allscripts EHR – Patient: Overview of the Patient tables as they relate to the Allscripts EHR Database. This course will cover basic concepts related to Patient tables, as well as useful queries, views and general best practice techniques. 

• Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 at 2:00pm EST

Allscripts EHR – Order/Results: Overview of the Order/Results tables as they relate to the Allscripts EHR Database. This course will cover basic concepts related to Order/Results tables, as well as useful queries, views and general best practice techniques. 

• Wednesday July 7th, 2010 at 2:00pm EST

Allscripts Analytics: Overview of the Allscipts Analytics application. This course will cover basic concepts related to general functionality of the Allcripts Analytics applications, including example Worksheet and Crosstab problems as well as general best practice techniques. 

• Wednesday August 11th, 2010 at 2:00pm EST

To attend, please contact Dave Boerner, Dave.Boerner@galenhealthcare.com . You must be an existing Allscripts Enterprise EHR client to attend.

We also offer training courses and reporting services for the Allscripts Enterprise EHR database, ETL database, Analytics and the ConnectR  database.  Please contact sales@galenhealthcare.com for more information regarding these courses and our reporting services.

Tags: EHR Certification, Galen Webcast Series, Technical