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Executive War College 2019 Master Class Recordings Available

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Listen to sessions from Executive War College 2019 about how to position your lab for success with strategies that address the impact of PAMA.

Featuring presenters from Mayo Clinic and Change Healthcare, our EWC 2019 sessions highlight CareSelect® Lab, an EHR integrated decision support solution for lab test ordering, and discuss the latest trends in laboratory utilization management.

New Approaches to Using Lab Test Ordering Rules in EHRs:

Do’s and Don’ts to Support Productive Workflows, Improve Clinicians’ Test Utilization, and Collect the Right Metrics on Outcomes, TATs, and Cost Savings

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The New PAMA Math:

Increasing Revenue and Profitability through Integrated Technology Solution

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MEDHOST – The 411: CareSelect® Imaging Integration Updates

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At MEDHOST, we’re committed to empowering your healthcare facility or hospital with the knowledge and tools you need to deliver the highest quality care available. In keeping with our promise to you, we recently announced our decision to enable integration with CareSelect® Imaging.

CareSelect Imaging is a clinical decision support mechanism that delivers advanced imaging guidelines at the point-of-order to help health systems improve overall quality, drive out waste and improve ordering appropriateness. This extension will deliver Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC)1 to applicable customers directly into their MEDHOST EHR solution and enable workflows for compliance with the AUC consultation mandate of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA).

AUC: A Brief History

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With PAMA, the radiologist’s challenge now centers on implementation.

The congressional mandate for CMS to require Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) consultation during the ordering of advanced diagnostic imaging is upon us. This year is a voluntary reporting period, 2020 is an educational and operations testing period, and
2021 is the formal start date with payments at risk. This program is a major policy change, requiring significant effort by our profession. For many radiology professionals, the new law has prompted a first introduction into AUC and clinical decision support (CDS) for practices. In this column, I discuss the origins of AUC, how it has evolved, and how it became a component of payment policy.

MEDHOST® to enable CareSelect® Imaging Integration for its Customers

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CareSelect Imaging offers a comprehensive CDS solution for advanced imaging and provides a pathway to fulfill PAMA Mandate

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – March 06, 2019 – MEDHOST, Inc., a provider of market-leading fully integrated electronic health record (EHR) and healthcare engagement solutions, announced today that it is enabling integration with National Decision Support Company’s (NDSC) CareSelect Imaging for its customers which will deliver Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) into the MEDHOST EHR solution.

“CareSelect Imaging delivers AUC, authored by leading medical specialty societies, directly into MEDHOST’s fully integrated EHR workflow at the point-of-order,” said Bob Cooke, VP of Marketing and Strategy at NDSC. “This empowers enterprise-wide quality improvement efforts and a pathway to compliance with the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) AUC consultation requirements.1”

This extension is designed to promote more reliable standards, reduced variation of care, and the data you need to improve performance. These factors lead to better patient care, improved population health, increased provider efficiency, and lower cost of care.

ACR Bulletin: Homing in on Quality

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Radiologists in rural western North Carolina are strengthening their relationships with local physicians and reducing inappropriate imaging via R-SCAN®. For radiologists at Asheville Radiology Associates, paving a new route means success in educating their referring clinicians about appropriate image ordering. However, the group faces a unique challenge in doing so: Their referring providers are distributed across a wide geographical area in rural western North Carolina.